Installable packages now available 📦

[skylarmacdonald]

Hello Bork fans,

Thanks to a day spent learning how to work fpm, Bork is now available as prebuilt packages for the following operating systems:

• Debian/Ubuntu-like (.deb)
• Fedora/CentOS/Red Hat (.rpm)
• macOS installer (.pkg)

These are now available to download on the release page for 0.13.0, and will be provided following every future release (provided my CI magic works).

A few notes about the packages:

• They are unsigned, un-vetted, unchecked by anyone but me. They contain the same code as is in the repository (at tag v0.13.0), but in cases where that's not trivial to inspect, you'll have to trust me on that.
• I have generated these using the minimum fpm config that worked. There may be OS-specific things that are missing. I have tested them on virtual machines of each OS, but please let me know if the package doesn't install for whatever reason on your system. I built them on my Mac but they all worked as expected on Linux.
• Similar to the first point: the macOS package is unsigned, so will be blocked from installing by default on most modern macOS systems as I am an unidentified developer. You can right-click the package and click ‘Open’ to bypass this check. Or, if you feel particularly generous, you could sponsor me so that I can pay Apple the $99 per year they require in order to trust me.

If there are any other pre-built packages you would like to see in future Bork versions, please comment below and I will try and figure out a way of providing them. The next step is to submit a packaged-up version of Bork to the big package managers, to make it easy to run your config on a fresh machine. That said, don't forget you can also compile your config script once you are happy with it, and run it on a new machine with zero runtime dependencies other than Bash.