Re: Deb and RPM packages

[Germán Arias]

On 2014-01-05 16:15:27 -0600 address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> Hi Germán,
> 
> Germán Arias <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
>> I'm a GNUstep developer. We are currently discussing about the
>> possibility to have an automated system to build deb packages. Currently
>> there is one host where we do this, but with limited resources.
>> According with this:
>> 
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/devel.html#Hydra
>> 
>> is possible to use hydra to build this packages. Now, my question is:
>> These packages are available to end users, in some kind of repository,
>> or is just to test the build?.
> 
> The default/preferred mode of operation with Hydra is to build things
> with Nix or Guix.  The result is an installed package with a prefix like
> /nix/store/...-my-package-1.0.
> 
> Alternately, with Nix and Nixpkgs, it can be used to spawn a QEMU VM
> that runs, say, Debian, and to build a .deb or similar in that VM.  The
> resulting .deb is then available for download via a page such as
> <http://hydra.nixos.org/job/gnu/libunistring/debian50_x86_64/latest>.
> 
> The recipe in Nix language for the one above is at:
> 
>   
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hydra-recipes.git/tree/libunistring/release.nix
> 
> HTH,
> Ludo’.
> 
>

OK, I will install Guix and start to learn how make a build recipe.

Thanks.
Germán.