Release thin-edge.io Debian packages on Debian repository

[PradeepKiruvale]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. As of now, the newer version of thin-edge.io packages are released as Debian packages on Github. The get-thin-edge_io.sh script will download these Debian packages and installs them onto the device. The verification of the architecture of the device and the download of the packages for that particular architecture is done by this installation script. This is the overhead for the script and can be delegated to the package manager.

Also, this is not secure to download and install some packages on the device from insecure sources. Customers might need some sort of secure Debian repository from where they can download the packages.

Describe the solution you'd like So, release the thin-edge.io packages on some secure Debian package repositories like Jfrog or packagecloud.io. When someone has to download the packages they can add a repository path to the apt source list and then install the packages. Now the apt package manager will take care of verifying the platform type and downloading that compatible packages. This will simplify the thin-edge.io installation script as well.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

[reubenmiller]

This also relates to the debian packing naming issue #1552

[reubenmiller]

We have some exciting news :)

From 0.9.0 onwards, we have published the debian packages to a publicly available debian (apt) repository. We don't have official documentation on the website just yet, however the repositories are there, so we are going for a soft release, to get some user feedback. The documentation also explains which repositories are used for which purposes.

• How to setup and use the tedge APT repositories

We are still investigating changing the thin-edge.io installation script to make the setup even more convenient.

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