Have a template repo/action which will make things easier to maintain for devs & easier to use for users

[fiftydinar]

• blank.yml GitHub Action

  • Only needs to be modified for the name of the deployed release.
    • input option: RELEASE_NAME: "Gnome Calculator" as an example

• get-dependencies.sh
  We can preinstall basic dependencies, only some things for installing a package needs to be configured

  • Provide an option to install directly from Arch repos (default)
    • input option: INSTALL_TYPE: arch-repo, INSTALL_INPUT: gnome-calculator
  • Provide an option to install directly from Chaotic AUR repos
    • input option: INSTALL_TYPE: arch-aur, INSTALL_INPUT: gnome-calculator
  • Provide an option to install from PKGBUILD, either provided locally or through URL
    • input option: INSTALL_TYPE: PKGBUILD, INSTALL_INPUT: ./PKGBUILD / https://someurl.com/link-to-PKGBUILD.git
  • Provide an option for architecture on which package will be built or installed, defaults to both x86_64 & aarch64
    • input option: ARCH: "x86_64, aarch64"
  • Provide an option for which debloated packages to install (defaults to none)
    • input option: DEBLOATED_PACKAGES: "mesa-mini, libxml2-mini"
  • Provide an option for installing other dependencies along the main one somehow
    • input option: OTHER_PACKAGES: "something1, something2, something2"

• name-appimage.sh
  This is much harder to automate, as it vastly depends on the app itself, but I think we can still automate some things, while leaving everything else to the user.
  We can automate building the AppImage & preparing it for release, quick-sharun process needs to be left for user customization

Dependabot would handle the updates to the user's template to be in-sync with ours.

I think if this gets done, we should still make it possible for users to use the current building method, to just copy the files above & modify them slightly for their needs, so it's not template-exclusive.

This is just a general idea, it's something we did in BlueBuild for making + deploying custom images & it made things much easier in the long run, both for devs & users.

We did it as a combination of repo template + GitHub Action template:

• https://github.com/blue-build/template
• https://github.com/blue-build/github-action

[Samueru-sama]

sounds good, however. I have no idea how to do this lol

Also I want to avoid having to write .yml files.

But yeah what I currently do is the following:

• get-dependencies.sh installs the basic packages and builds the package

• *-appimage.sh makes the appimage.