FS#66784 - Add Automatic Build Infrastructure for Arch Linux Packaging.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Evan Greenup (evgrup) - Tuesday, 26 May 2020, 11:40 GMT
Last edited by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Thursday, 28 May 2020, 17:30 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Arch Projects
Status Closed
Assigned To Jelle van der Waa (jelly)
Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Giancarlo Razzolini (grazzolini)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

Nowadays, as the CD or Container technology getting more and more mature, more and more open source distro provider like OpenSUSE, F-Droid use auto packaging infrastructure to delivery the packages. This can effectively save the time of maintainer. And also it can make the final package much easier to be trusted by users.

According to the nature of `pacman`, `makepkg`, `PKGBUILD`, it would be much easier to implement the automatic build and delivery.
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Closed by  Jelle van der Waa (jelly)
Thursday, 28 May 2020, 17:30 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  Work in progress.
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Thursday, 28 May 2020, 17:29 GMT
This is a bit of a oversimplification of how easy it is to setup automatic builds in a secure, reliable and trustworthy. We are working towards this in small steps by moving to Gitlab, working on automated secure signing of packages and reproducible builds to ensure our build servers.

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