Re: Reviving the apptainer packaging effort
Hello,
On 2025-02-27 16:37, Roland Mas wrote:
As part of our work on Scibian, a Debian derivative focused on
scientific computing at EDF, we're in need of working packages for
apptainer. We're ready to put up with the work needed, or at least give
it our best shot.
I welcome your initiative. I am using apptainer a lot and would happily
switch away from locally-built .deb for it.
We believe it makes sense to maintain them in Debian first, so in order
not to duplicate work or step on anyone's toes, I'm sending this email
to a wide audience; I suggest restricting your replies to the debian-go
list, which we feel is the most appropriate for discussion.
Please CC me, I am not subscribed to debian-go@.
singularity and apptainer have a long and complex history, with many
packaging attempts by various persons. Our first task will be to get an
idea of who did what, where the code lives, and probably pick a starting
point from there. Also, if you have words of wisdom or warnings or
ideas, ther by all means do speak up. The task is big and indimidating,
and any help will be most welcome.
I am building local .deb which uses network to collect the build
dependencies, thus this is far away from official Debian package, but if
anyone is interested in looking under debian/, I could share it.
I do not have any words of wisdom, but I consider #1068578 and [1] great
starting points.
Best,
Andrius
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/10/msg00159.html
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