a-piece-of-pisi

Crazy time: We're building a tool to convert a selection of .eopkg packages into .stone packages to be consumed by moss-rs to vastly accelerate the development of Serpent OS and Solus 5.

Plan:

• CLI tool takes an indexURI argument
• Group eopkg packages into source-ids
• Map these back to the package.yml in the Solus monorepo
• Using provided filter, fetch and process the relevant package groups
• For each "source", emit stone.yml:
  • Explode the install.tar.xz's into pkg/import
  • Generate basic recipe to install files
  • Add stone.yml path globs and metadata
• Use boulder to mass-produce a dirty-import-repo
• Use dirty-import-repo as bootstrap for new Solus 5/Serpent OS with new target repo and clean recipes
• Provide source recipe conversion tool
• Profit.

Note: This method bypasses the need to rewrite boulder into Rust just yet, allowing us to reuse our existing solutions to perform the mass conversion and rebootstrap / cleanup, as well as augmenting the bootstrap repo with soname, pkgconfig dependencies etc.

Timeline

This, and moss-rs, are effectively priority 1 for Serpent.

License

a-piece-of-pisi is available under the terms of the MPL-2.0