AppImage OBS Integration

Creating AppImages
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MirrorBrain has native zsync support, we should check this out:

http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/configuration/#configuring-zsync-generation

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After some experimentation here is my first Qt application built on OBS using linuxdeployqt which appears to be working:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/home:probono/DSRemote/appimage.yml?expand=1
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/probono/AppImage/DSRemote-0-x86_64.AppImage

Workarounds needed (PRs welcome!):

  • symlink /usr/bin/qmake
  • run find/patchelf commands to work around linuxdeployqt issues
  • create qt.conf for reasons unbeknownst to me (SUSE Qt seems to ignore qt_prfxpath)

Details on https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt/issues/99

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Now, why is this ignored? https://build.opensuse.org/project/meta/home:probono

    <arch>i686</arch>
    <arch>armv7hl</arch>
    <arch>aarch64</arch>
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this sounds interesting

Awesome!

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Last weekend, @adrianS and I officially announced OBS support for AppImage at the openSUSE Conference 17. The video is now online:

Slides:

Kudos to @adrianS for all the heavy lifting!

Updated instructions at https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Using-Open-Build-Service.

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HOLY CRAP! I just watched the video where rbrown talks about this in his Jurassic Park talk so this is freaking awesome news!

Edit: @probono unfortunately that video for the announcement is saying it is not available.

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Video:

Slides:

Executive Summary:

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And although we feel that Richard may have been a bit too harsh with or friends at Canonical and Red Hat we are delighted to hear that Richard likes our user experience:

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I watched the rbrown video, I was referring to this video. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1OwX-dNFo

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ok cool, thanks for the fixed link. Watching now. :slight_smile:

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My patch was accepted by adrian, now OBS can create AppImages with AppRun, before OBS was only adding AppRun for binaries not when building by source.

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What happened to AppImage in OBS? Most of the examples have either been deleted or are broken. Is anyone maintaining this?
I also can’t find any useful tutorials, etc.

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The official AppImage template is still here:

https://build.opensuse.org/image_templates

and building. It should be ported to either SLE 12 or Leap 15.1 though, since
42.3 did run out of maintenance.

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Thank you adrianS. Let me know if you need something from our side.

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How do I start using https://build.opensuse.org/image_templates to generate a new .AppImage?

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Hi @syro please see https://docs.appimage.org/packaging-guide/hosted-services/opensuse-build-service.html. Please report at https://github.com/AppImage/docs.appimage.org/issues in case something is not clear or not working as described. Thank you!

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This is great, I juste started using .AppImage with the Zettlr app
Trying the Freeter.io .AppImage next https://freeter.io/download
Would ultimately like to create my own custom and now I’m in right direction

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Great @syro let us know how it goes.

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AFAICT OBS AppImages are still presently built using leap 42.3 (with e.g. Qt 5.6)… Any schedule for moving forward?

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AFAICT OBS AppImages are still presently built using leap 42.3 (with e.g. Qt 5.6)… Any schedule for moving forward?

You can build against

OBS:AppImage AppImage.leap_15.2

repository (instead of AppImage repo) for a newer toolchain.

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