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> distributing binaries on Linux is an enormous pain. It doesn't have to. Packaging using FPM [0] allows many targets (deb, rpm, etc) and using ELF2deb [1] (sh
by NicolaiS 6y ago
> distributing binaries on Linux is an enormous pain.
It doesn't have to. Packaging using FPM [0] allows many targets (deb, rpm, etc) and using ELF2deb [1] (shameless plug) allows packaging any files to a .deb with no effort.
[0] https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
[1] https://github.com/NicolaiSoeborg/ELF2deb https://github.com/NicolaiSoeborg/ELF2deb
- IshKebab 6y agoThat's not the difficult part. The hard part is compiling a program that doesn't depend on Glibc 2.X when your users only have 2.6 or use Musl or whatever.