Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE people...

[Long, Martin]

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> So I have been told by people who are much more familiar with Ubuntu and Debian than I am that I should be able to use pretty much the same scripts that I have for Ubuntu (and LinuxMint) to build a Debian package. Could someone elaborate on this? And where would I post those - there doesn’t appear to be a PPA style system for Debian (at least not that I’m aware of).
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My understand is that there is no PPA system as such with Debian.
Debian is somewhat stricter, and hence why Ubuntu is essentially a
superset of Debian. It is possible to add additional repositories, but
adding for example, Ubuntu repositories can result in all kinds of
binary compatibility issues.

> For Fedora, Pierre-Yves appears to have set up something, but I don’t think I have permission to push to it (and it doesn’t use the custom libraries, nor has it been updated recently). Pierre-Yves - can you add me to this repository and help walk me through the steps of building a similar custom package as I have for Ubuntu?

I don't know about Fedora/Redhat. I've never really been a fan of the
RPM system, as apt just seems to make a lot more sense. Who knows, you
may need to get RPMs signed by Microsoft these days ;-)

I would have thought it would be more ideal to have all of the build
servers pull from the central repo for the daily build, and possibly
respond to tags to do official builds, rather than you having to push
to all of the different places.