Deb package for debian-base distro

[ronit18]

[DO NOT APPROVE TO RUN WORKFLOW]
I have created this deb/build.sh script by which we can build a .deb package which will install ghostty binary in /usr/bin/ghostty and desktop app in /usr/share/applications/ghostty. The main problem with this is i need help in github-actions. I am not very good at it.

I tried to run it in my repo and im getting this error, i looked the code in build.zig it checks whether its a git repo if yes then checks for v1.0.0, i tried everything still getting error in that.

Need help in this part.

[charyouz]

Can you try to output what the found version is, if it's not v1.0.0?

[rhodes-b]

You should read this, Ghostty does not plan on supporting packages built in the repo for Linux

https://ghostty.org/docs/install/binary#linux-(official)

[rhodes-b]

this is already packaged with ghostty

[ronit18]

so this means i dont have to create a .desktop file myself, Just copy from this and use right?

[ronit18]

Can you try to output what the found version is, if it's not v1.0.0?

Yes. Following are the version injections i tried:

• Taking version from GITHUB_REF

 if [ -n "$GITHUB_REF" ]; then
    VERSION=$(echo "$GITHUB_REF" | sed 's|refs/tags/v||') # Extract version after 'v'
else
    VERSION="1.0.0"
fi
echo "Using version: $VERSION"

As you can see i added echo using version. and it is using 10.0.0 but still got error in build.zig

• Making a env from actions/workflow

- name: Print GitHub Tag
              run: |
                  echo "GitHub Ref: $GITHUB_REF"
                  echo "Tag: ${GITHUB_REF##*/}"

            - name: Build .deb Package
              env:
                  ZIG_GLOBAL_CACHE_DIR: /tmp/offline-cache
                  VERSION: ${GITHUB_REF##*/}

              run: |
                  chmod +x ./deb/build.sh
                  ./deb/build.sh

This will show tag in Print Github tag but inside script it wont show anything. a blank variable.

• Adding version inline build command

this will give this error

[ronit18]

edit: i have removed deb/build.sh and integrated that whole code in actions .yml by taking code snippets from .github/workflow/release-tag.yml

Also have figured out version error. now build is working but getting error of bzip2(i've already added this in dependency building' but still getting package not found. This error is only occuring when i try to build on workflow/actions

[ronit18]

FInallyyyyyy got everything working😭, now its building on github-actions im getting a deb file for amd64 architecture.
Now have to figure out how can i merge deb packaging code with existing .github/workflows/release-tag.yml.

[clayrisser]

I've packaged ghostty for debian if anyone wants to reference it.

https://github.com/clayrisser/debian-ghostty

The debian/unstable branch contains the rules for compiling ghostty with zig. Because zig is not currently available on debian, I had to download zig in the rules during the debian build. This breaks the rules of proper debian packaging which makes this approach impossible to release on a debian repository (such as the openSUSE Build Service).

I worked around the above issues by using the pre-built binaries in the debian/bookworm branch. Until zig is supported on debian this is the only way to get ghostty in a debian repository.

https://github.com/clayrisser/debian-ghostty/tree/debian/bookworm/debian/prebuilt

[ronit18]

Closing pr, because deb package is already made for ghostty.