Clarify why there is no packages

[KOLANICH]

Due to some policy restrictions we do not distribute Cling on official repositories of Debian and others.

doesn't reveal the causes. I probably can take your nightly builds and make a deb from them, but I guess I should know the reasons why you don't distribute debs first.

[Axel-Naumann]

Due to some policy restrictions we do not distribute Cling on official repositories of Debian and others.

Where do we say that? :-) I think what's meant is: as we need to patch clang and thus need to include a patched clang, distros really don't like us. But that doesn't stop us from distributing binary packages; and for some (sorta) distros cling is just fine, e.g. Conda.

Cheers, Axel.

[Axel-Naumann]

So yes: what we need is someone to

• check whether cpack builds deb, rpm, dmg, ... just fine
• else hand in a PR that fixes that.
  Then I can turn on package building in our nightlies!

[KOLANICH]

Where do we say that? :-)

https://github.com/root-project/cling/blob/master/tools/packaging/README.md

BTW, on GitLab it is possible (I personally do that, but not for cling) to use GitLab pages generated by a pipeline to host a deb repo.

[reikdas]

So yes: what we need is someone to

• check whether cpack builds deb, rpm, dmg, ... just fine
• else hand in a PR that fixes that.
  Then I can turn on package building in our nightlies!

Maybe if cpt's .deb creation could be fixed, we can use cpt to package nightly binaries. @vgvassilev @Axel-Naumann

[Axel-Naumann]

README is updated, now we just need to check that cpt actually manages to build .dep packages. @reikdas do you want to give it a shot?

[reikdas]

@reikdas do you want to give it a shot?

I had made some progress some months ago (I think motivated by @ax3l). The progress is here - vgvassilev/cling#214. I took a look and it seems like I had given up due to some issues with gpg signing. I'll give it another try though - hopefully, it is not too difficult. :)

[ax3l]

@reikdas I was a bit busy over the last months and am fully booked. Please don't hesitate to reach out once cpt works and I can push a few CI/CD scripts.

[ferdymercury]

The script cpt.py was obsolete and has been removed. Updated build instructions are to be found in the README.

[ferdymercury]

Discussion on Debian packaging can be found here: root-project/root#19265