owntone / owntone-apt

Workflows for generating RPi packages and repo

apt

About

This repository holds workflows and configurations for building OwnTone Debian packages and for updating the Raspberry Pi repository.

Leveraging the magic of Github Actions the workflows can:

• Create pbuilder images for various distributions and architechtures, and use these to build OwnTone Debian packages by getting the source, using the Debian config in owntone-server/debian and then invoking pdebuild to cross-compile.

• Update the repository with the new packages using reprepro.

Howto make a new version

1. Edit VER and COMMIT in pkginfo.
2. Trigger the create_dpkg.yml workflow, and select the targets you want to build for. When the workflow is complete, check that it has produced artifacts with the expected .deb files.
3. Trigger update_repo_rpi.yml. This will load repository data from the latest release (revision), update with packages from the latest create_dpkg.yml, and create a new Github release of the repository with assets for publishing. The packages will have been signed using the RPI_REPO_SECKEY GitHub secret.

Howto add a distribution or architechture

1. Add new distro/arch to create_dpkg.yml
2. Add new distro/arch to update_repo_rpi.yml
3. Edit repo/rpi/conf/distributions and repo/rpi/conf/incoming.
4. Commit and push changes.

Credit

This was made with the help of these great guides/resources:

• https://grid.in.th/2020/10/cross-compile-packages-for-raspbian-from-x86_64/
• https://jod.al/2015/03/08/building-arm-debs-with-pbuilder/
• https://github.com/mopidy/apt