Minikube Installer For Linux

[aaron-prindle]

We are attempting to create a local installer for Minikube on all of our supported platforms and would appreciate any feedback on best practices as to how this should be designed. Right now, we are considering the following approach:
Create a bin directory in ~/.minikube:
~/minikube
--/bin/kubectl
--/bin/minikube
--/bin/drivers

Then link (via symlink, etc.) the above into the path of the user with a method that is OS specific and points to the correct minikube binary (linux os --> minikube-linux-amd64). We will create a .deb, .rpm, .dmg, and .msi to do the above.

Right now our goal is to put the minikube binary on the path of the user in a way that is extensible to multiple binaries/dependencies (kubectl, etc.), easy to maintain for all OSs, and is as fast/simple as possible.

[aaron-prindle]

Building on: #12

[jimmidyson]

Distro packages should not be installed into a user's home directory. Packages are installed as root remember. If we're providing installers then we should follow proper file locations, e.g. /use/bin, /etc, etc

[ramitsurana]

@aaron-prindle Try using https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

[r2d4]

Looks like someone has already added it to the arch user repository https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minikube/

[aaron-prindle]

Here is a write-up detailing the steps I used in my first concept for how to a create a .deb installer for minikube:
https://gist.github.com/aaron-prindle/cfd23148460b24c5f49e8ceecd8ec4b0

This installed the minikube binary and added it to my path on my machine (Ubuntu 14.04). I am not sure if additional dependencies should be added to the control file or what best practices would be regarding multiple binaries, directories, etc. Any suggestions on how to improve this or alternative methods would be appreciated.

In another attempt, I tried to use dh-make-golang in conjunction with this guide but was not able to properly build the package getting the error:
aprindle@aprindle:~/dh-make-gopath/go/bin/minikube$ gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder
Base directory /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow does not exist
gbp:error: Couldn't run 'git-pbuilder': git-pbuilder returned 1

[dlorenc]

cc @stephenmw

[zoidyzoidzoid]

I think using fpm might make supporting more than Debian-based OSes easier?

[r2d4]

Closing, we now have a deb and arch linux AUR package