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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Building native packages is complicated | Packaging Anubis as native packages (xeiaso.net)

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Anubis provides protection against bots scraping websites and DDoSing projects.

This blog post is about Xe's reasoning for originally only providing docker packages and their work to provide native packages.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (7 children)

There must be a tool that allows you to build packages for multiple systems in multiple formats (deb, rpm, nix, flatpak, snap, etc.). Does that not exist? After 20 years of these systems existing, somebody must've tried...

Also, it's clear that once again, open source needs some kind of funding model, because it's a little crazy that a project like this can get so popular so fast, the dev flooded with praise, thanks, and issues but not money to maintain and develop it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Problem is that distro1 has req-lib2.5.3 while distro2 has req-lib2.7.8, but your project was developed on distro3 with req-lib2.9.5 so you have to deal with every distro having different lib versions and compatibility issues that come with it, not just different packaging formats.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And different names too. Debian and Fedora have different packages names, so req-lib on debian becomes req-devel on Fedora.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

And since Arch is rolling release it's python-lib, not python3-lib. :)

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