[Feature Request] Binary packages for releases

[sbraz]

🚀 Feature Request

Describe the solution you'd like

Hi Davide,
Have you considered using GitHub's CI or something similar to provide Debian/Fedora packages along with the source for each release?

[madrisan]

Hi Louis. I thought about it but never tried to implement such a feature. In particular I do not know how and where to stock the final artifacts.
The packages at the moment can be only generated locally, with docker or podman, using the commands make -C packages ....

[sbraz]

Yes I did eventually manage to generate a Debian package :)

As for where to store: you can use releases for this, I see you already include tarballs there.

The trickiest part would be the build, then. If I'm reading this correctly, you can use Docker with GH actions, which seems pretty neat.

[sbraz]

Actually the deb I created with Buster doesn't contain the binaries. I don't really know what happened. The build never worked from the git repo, I got:

make --no-print-directory distdir-am
NEWS not updated; not releasing

I eventually managed to run make -C packages debian-buster from the v29 release tarball but the resulting deb doesn't contan the binaries :/

[madrisan]

The make produces several .deb files because in v29 iwe switch to a multi-packages setup. Maybe you just checked the meta-package? It should be the only one that does not contain any binary.

[sbraz]

I was looking at nagios-plugins-linux-memory_28-2_amd64.deb (no idea why it is named 28 because I built it from v29) and it did not contain the binary.
A build from a clean git clone also fails: multibuild.sh: error: no such file: /tmp/nagios-plugins-linux/packages/docker-shell-helpers/docker-shell-helpers.sh.

Am I missing something here?

[madrisan]

I did not include the packages because of the high number. Several distributions are supported and each in a few different versions. If you have any idea for improving the situation I'll be glad to discuss and implement it

[madrisan]

I was looking at nagios-plugins-linux-memory_28-2_amd64.deb (no idea why it is named 28 because I built it from v29) and it did not contain the binary.
A build from a clean git clone also fails: multibuild.sh: error: no such file: /tmp/nagios-plugins-linux/packages/docker-shell-helpers/docker-shell-helpers.sh.

Am I missing something here?

I think you forgot the git clone --recursive flag, as explained in the README.

[sbraz]

I think you forgot the git clone --recursive flag, as explained in the README.

I completely missed the submodule, my bad.

Still, there is something weird going on: the build resulted in e.g. nagios-plugins-linux-nbprocs_28-2_amd64.deb and said file does not contain the binary:

drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2021-07-11 12:44 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2021-07-11 12:44 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2021-07-11 12:44 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2021-07-11 12:44 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2021-07-11 12:44 ./usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-linux-nbprocs/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1838 2021-07-11 12:44 ./usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-linux-nbprocs/changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root        92 2021-07-11 12:44 ./usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-linux-nbprocs/changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1089 2021-07-11 12:44 ./usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-linux-nbprocs/copyright

The build process also required manual input:

*** info: creating the origin package nagios-plugins-linux_29.orig.tar.xz...                                                                                                                                       
*** info: creating the deb package and build files for version 29...                                                                                                                                               
This package has a Debian revision number but there does not seem to be                                                                                                                                            
an appropriate original tar file or .orig directory in the parent directory;                                                                                                                                       
(expected one of nagios-plugins-linux_28.orig.tar.gz, nagios-plugins-linux_28.orig.tar.bz2,                                                                                                                        
nagios-plugins-linux_28.orig.tar.lzma,  nagios-plugins-linux_28.orig.tar.xz or nagios-plugins-linux-29.orig)                                                                                                       
continue anyway? (y/n) y                                                                                                                                                                                           

I did not include the packages because of the high number.

Maybe you could make one archive per distro and that archive would contain all checks? Otherwise, I guess you'd need to host the files somewhere else.

[madrisan]

Ok. I can reproduce the issue, sorry :/