On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 5:19 PM Hervé Guillemet <[email protected]> wrote: > > Or do you have any suggestion for alternatives to this gentoo chroot ? > (I'd prefer avoid installing some CentOS or Ubuntu as virtual guests).
You're of course free to do it any way you wish, but if I wanted to create packages for various distros, I'd probably just follow their instructions for doing so. If you're making Ubuntu 16.04 packages I suspect it would be just a lot less fuss all around to do it from an Ubuntu 16.04 container, and so on. And if you're just building binaries and creating tarballs with them, well, why? If people want to manually deal with stuff the source is already fine. If they want the benefits of a package manager they're going to want packages. And if you're hoping to encourage distros to do the packaging for you, they're probably only going to do that from source anyway. I imagine most distros have a fairly straightforward packaging system, and I suspect a lot of CI systems have plugins to churn out packages for them automatically. So why maintain some Gentoo chroot and carefully curate every single library on them to match some entirely different distro? You're going to run into stuff where Gentoo doesn't have the version you need in the repo, and you'll be fighting auto updates, and so on. But, sure, you can get Gentoo to install whatever you want as long as you don't mind manually picking packages, or maintaining your own repo where you carefully curate this stuff. -- Rich
