Recipe based AppImage creation meta-tool
Project description
AppImageBuilder
A recipe based AppImage creation meta-tool featuring:
Done:
- Structured recipes
- AppImage creation in modern system (backward compatibility is keep)
- all-in bundles (no external dependencies but Linux Kernel and libfuse)
- distributions compatibility testing
- Assisted licensing compliance
Todo:
- Embed software tracking
- AppDir structure validation
- Reproducible builds*
- continuous integration ready
Limitations:
- only Debian based systems are supported as build platform. If you think we should support another please let us know.
Features description
Structured recipes
Recipes are wrote using the yaml
format resulting in a well
structured and human readable recipe were each build step is
specified in a different section.
User can check the examples
folder for already built recipes.
AppImage creation in modern system
Building an AppImage in a modern system using the traditional methods renders to bundles incompatible with any distribution released before due glib and glibc missing features.
AppImageBuilder fixes this issue by embedding those libraries and the required loader tool making your bundle really self-sufficient.
all-in bundles
All goes into the resulting AppImage file. And by all we also mean libc, glib, libssl and any other library. This may render having outdated bundles a security issue. But bundles can be easily rebuilt by user or developers so it just takes an update.
A draw-back of this feature is that the resulting AppImage have a larger size, yet it's about ~10 mb which is not a big deal in modern times.
distributions compatibility testing
Compatibility tests can be easily setup to run the resulting bundle in different distributions by means of docker. Therefore developers can have a real idea of where they software will be able to run.
Embed software tracking
As the bundle is built using the packages from the host system package manager it's possible to store the exact list of which software was embed and it's version. By retriving this information security tools can detect if there are vulnerabilities reported for such versions and warn the users about it.
AppDir structure validation
To check whether the AppDir is properly formed and there are no missing resources.
Reproducible builds
Recipes can be embed in the resulting bundle so users can recreate the package without major efforts and compare the results.
Assisted licensing compliance
The host system package manager already include the licenses of every software piece therefore this information is also passed into the resulting bundle.
continuous integration ready
Provide hooks to publish the resulting bundle into the different applications stores or binary hosting services.
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