Subj : Husky Project Compile on Debian 11 and/or AlmaLinux/RockyLinux 8
To   : Eric Renfro
From : Michael Dukelsky
Date : Sat Feb 12 2022 06:09 pm

Hello Eric,

Saturday February 12 2022, Eric Renfro wrote to All:

 ER> So, I've been having some major issues trying to migrate from CentOS 7
 ER> to either AlmaLinux 8, Rocky Linux 8, or even more preferred at this
 ER> stage, Debian 11, with trying to get the Husky Tools project to even
 ER> compile, let alone compile into preferred native packages for these
 ER> distributions.

 ER> I've tried the method of init_rpm_build on AlmaLinux/Rocky Linux, and
 ER> even openSUSE 15.3 (to no availability of mock at all) and it always
 ER> fails, specifically on systemd-nspawn part of mock.

Please send me your huskymak.cfg and build log on Rocky Linux to my email in the tagline.

 ER> The debian/* structure is so outdated it's not even funny.
 ER> debian/compat is non-existant, and setup as DH_COMPAT in debian/rules,
 ER> to a long since unsupported version 4, to make things difficult on
 ER> Debian's side of things.

 ER> I'm trying to ultimately move away from CentOS 7 before it becomes
 ER> unsupported in 2024. I'm prefering the Debian way of things, even
 ER> though for decades, I've never liked the .deb package format, but I
 ER> have always appreciated the rest of the setup for servers, the modular
 ER> design it's always had. And I finally FINALLY figured out how to
 ER> create a debian repository. ;)

If you could write a script producing .deb similar to the one producing .rpm, it would be nice.

Michael

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