implement creation of deb package

[romange]

part of much bigger #237

a pretty extensive blog post guides on how to build debian packages. Also https://earthly.dev/blog/creating-and-hosting-your-own-deb-packages-and-apt-repo/ but it does not use cmake.

no need to host or build a repo, just to make sure we can build the deb using cpack -G DEB.
The goal at this point is to release deb via our release pipeline on github.
cmake is just one challenge. another (minor) one - installing the dragonfly will require a systemd service script.

[acheevbhagat]

I can take a crack at this one, but I won't have time to start on it for the next 3 or 4 days

[romange]

thanks Acheev, much appreciated. and it's not urgent at all.

[romange]

hi @acheevbhagat, are you planning on working on this?

[acheevbhagat]

Ah yes I am.
Truthfully, I forgot I had put my name on this issue. Thank you for reminding me, I am still planning on doing this.

[romange]

Well, now you are officially assigned 😆
I will keep reminding you from time to time ;)

[acheevbhagat]

Just wanted to drop a small update
I have created a packing.cmake file to generate the deb package, and it seemingly works installing to my vm, but I want to do some more testing and make sure it's actually working properly + learn some more about cpack to make sure I'm doing things right + create the systemd script
I have the changes on my fork if you care to check them out, and if you want me to put up a wip pr I can do that too

[romange]

Thanks, Acheev. I actually do not know myself how to generate the deb package, so at this point you already know better than me.
I trust you do the necessary checks. Shoot the PR afterwards! :)

[hwittenborn]

If you'd rather use some simple Bash scripting, makedeb could provide a quick and easy way to make the package. It's a project I'm the lead for, but it's already seen some adoption and success among some big projects.

Any thoughts?

[romange]

I do not know enough to say why either option is better. Currently, I just do not have time to learn the domain, waiting for the team to grow and then the task owner will decide.

[boazsade]

The first PR will only include the required files/scripts to generate the packages.
The second PR will include the changes to the git workflow so that we would generate a version automatically from git actions.

[boazsade]

We now have deb packages for x86 as well as ARM