Open tinywrkb opened 4 years ago
Hello! Thanks for the interest in the project! At the moment we are in the middle of a lift & shift process regarding the CI/CD pipeline to generate the installers. We will for sure consider the POC you made in the near future.
@umbynos, thank you for your reply. I hope that you won't only make it easy for package maintainers to re-package the app but also consider distribution via Flathub as a Flatpak app.
Any news about this?
Can we at least get a binary tarball release? The installer needs access to /proc/self/exe
and due to the security implications of having such access, it's not available during the Flatpak installation/apply_extra step as Flatpak is running as the root user.
I'm seeing a failed readlink(/proc/self/exe) and the installer.
I can go around this issue by installing to the user Flatpak installation and not system-wide but that's not a proper solution.
Also, please consider officially distribute this app via Flathub.
Note that I'm not that sure about certificate handling. I guess maybe bind-mount ~/.pki/nss
from the host, package certutil
, and add support in the app for adding certificate via certutil
.
I should also add that IIRC correctly Firefox already support the XDG dirs specification for the certs DB while Chrome/Chromium doesn't.
There are a few issues that prevent re-packaging and distributing Arduino Create Agent through repositories instead of the current binary installer.
There are blocking issues that prevent re-packaging:
The binary installer, even with the
--mode unattended
still tries to run Arduino_Create_Bridge after the installation and it does not respect--prefix
.The app should look for the config at
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/arduino-create/
with$HOME/.config/arduino-create/
as a fallback if$XDG_CONFIG_HOME
is unset or empty. See XDG Base Directory SpecificationWould be nice to have:
$HOME/.arduino-create/
use$XDG_DATA_HOME/arduino-create/
with$HOME/.local/share/arduino-create/
as a fallback if$XDG_DATA_HOME
is unset or empty.config.ini
does not exist in the config folder, create a default config file.For my own needs, and as a POC, I packaged the Create Agent as a Flatpak here. Notice the ugly workaround in the startup script, copying the executable to the config folder.