Repo using github pages

[morph027]

Just discovered your project after i came up with my own repo 😂 (not fiddling w/ debian manifests, simply using nfpm)

However, if you still want to use Github Actions to build packages and put it into a repo, you might use Github pages w/ https://github.com/morph027/apt-repo-action

[mkasberg]

Not a bad idea! I'm open to it, depending how my progress on a PPA goes. I think I'd prefer to do a PPA if I can make it work. If I can't get it working (for #9 or other reasons), I'd be interested in both simplifying the .deb build here (using dpkg-deb, fpm, nfpm, or another simpler solution instead of debuild) and finding a non-PPA repo solution (like that apt repo action or similar). I didn't know about nfpm or that apt-repo-action before, thanks for the idea!

[morph027]

Jip, PPA sounds good. I'd prefer that too, but in the past i struggled to set it up properly 😄

ALso, Cloudsmith allows free repos for open source projects, which i'm using in another project w/ huge artifacts.

[mkasberg]

Nice, I think I like the Cloudsmith idea better if I can't get the PPA working!

[mkasberg]

I looked into Cloudsmith. It's an interesting option but might not be possible -- specifically due to these rules:

2. You must have significant control and/or responsibility for the project; i.e. you're a maintainer.
3. The project must not be a minor fork; i.e. it is either the primary project or a major fork of one.
4. You must adequately and fairly attribute Cloudsmith as the source of free hosting (see below).

All of these are at best a gray area for us.

• On (2), I'm a maintainer of ghostty-ubuntu but not of ghostty itself. And I wouldn't expect that Mitchell would want to get involved. This could be a gray area if ghostty-ubuntu becomes the primary way to distribute ghostty for Ubuntu, but I don't think it necessarily is right now.
• On (3), it's debatable the extent to which this is a fork since it isn't an official part of Ghostty.
• On (5), I'd of course be happy to drop their logo and link at the top of our readme if we use them, but we can't necessarily put their branding on Ghostty's official website/repo (which is probably part of the reason for (3) above.

I also looked closer at the GitHub Pages Apt Action. It's a very cool approach, but looks like it can't easily support hosting artifacts for multiple distributions/codenames (jammy/noble/oracular)?

Ideally, I'd like to find some kind of free or open source hosting solution where we can just push up our binary .deb packages that we built ourselves.

[pbulteel]

In that case why not use Open Build Service? https://openbuildservice.org/