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georgia
georgia
i have a very newbish question. i'm trying to add application repositories on fedora and to download the rpms in them without installing the appimage, snap, tarball, apt, etc. basically the rpm is much smaller than the appimage so i want to add the repository for this app. i'd rather deal with a host of sources and have a native package than a flatpak. heres an example of a package where i want to add the rpm (without just installing the most recent one in a way it wont be updated when the system updates) https://github.com/readest/readest
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@georgia check https://repology.org (https://repology.org/project/readest/versions)! that’s what I do. readest doesn’t seem to have an official rpm source. in that case, I would look for an unofficial copr but that’s a risk because you have to trust that.
also this is a good opportunity to check if they (readest) would be interested if you contributed a fedora package (check https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/New_Package_Process_for_New_Contributors/ it’s somewhat straightforward. let me know if you want to do this and want any assistance, I’ve always wanted to do something like this)
also this is a good opportunity to check if they (readest) would be interested if you contributed a fedora package (check https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/New_Package_Process_for_New_Contributors/ it’s somewhat straightforward. let me know if you want to do this and want any assistance, I’ve always wanted to do something like this)
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@georgia always an Appimage it's available, I go for it, a couple of reasons, mostly that always works and doesn't fill the OS with linked libs.
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@anokasion anyway i thought about it and realized that having a repository means hosting your thing on a different site than having it on github or the like
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amenome
anemone@ebiverse.social
@georgia@netzsphaere.xyz you've already ruled out the only good option so I have no advice
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amenome
anemone@ebiverse.social
@georgia@netzsphaere.xyz unless it's some tool that needs deep access to the OS a flatpak is going to be the easiest solution
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@georgia no, it's not the same. As things are right now, a secure place to upload your work it's codeberg.org. You can set up your own Gitea for example, of course, and be totally private, nothing wrong with that, but you have to make the backups yourself too in case something happens.
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