Packaging

[hugglesfox]

It would be great if Nebula provided deb and rpm packages to simplify the install and upgrade process.

[SaigyoujiYuyuko233]

agree! :) but the installation is simple. It just is a simple runnable file.

[coderobe]

These should ideally be provided by downstream packagers of the relevant ecosystems to prevent incompatibilities and ensure distribution-local packaging standards - NixOS and Arch Linux are already doing that.
Consider bringing it up to the package maintainer(s) of the relevant distributions

[rawdigits]

I brought this in a comment on one of the arstechnica articles about nebula as well. We'd definitely prefer if other folks who enjoy using nebula might take up the task of packaging it for various distros/platforms, as @coderobe has done for Arch.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/12/how-to-set-up-your-own-nebula-mesh-vpn-step-by-step/?comments=1&post=38425931

[toonsevrin]

I'll write a snapcraft package, hopefully this can then be CDed with the slack publisher.

EDIT: A snapcraft package has already been written: https://github.com/jwallden/nebula-snap

[hlovdal]

I have created  rpm packages for my own usage that I have used on all my Fedora/Centos machines for a couple of months now. With those it is only install package, edit configuration file and then start and enable service.

(Now my package is "cheating" in the build process by just pulling the release binaries from this repository, which is why I have not made any pull requests yet.)

But related to this, I think just nebula is a very poor package name since

1. It is not very descriptive.
2. There exists other existing packages already named nebula.

I chose to name the package nebula-overlay-networking to avoid these issues.

Now that there exists a pull request for a Debian package I think it would be good to have a discussion on package name to avoid unnecessary naming fragmentation (like for example kdeconnect-kde, kdeconnect-plasma, kdeconnect or kde-connect).

Any maintainer opinions on package names?

[hlovdal]

Related FreeBSD pull request.

[jdoss]

2. There exists other existing packages already named nebula.

This nebula software is no longer being maintained upstream and that package is being retired. I am working with the current maintainer of the nebula package in Fedora and EPEL to possibly take over the nebula in Fedora and EPEL name once EPEL 8 is no longer supported.

[jasikpark]

Created #630 since someone added nebula to homebrew complete w/ a service setup

[johnmaguire]

Hi there - we'd love to see packages for various distros but this is ultimately something to take up with the distro maintainers themselves.

I know Arch Linux, https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/nebula and Debian have packages, and there appears to be a snap package as well.