EdgeDB Release Packaging Toolkit

Everything specifically related to making EdgeDB packages for all supported platforms is located in this repo. The build workflows for packages are located in the main EdgeDB repo.

SRE bits for packages.edgedb.com is also here.

Nightly Builds

The nightly package builds are performed at 00:00 UTC every day, or on demand by triggering a "Build Test and Publish Nightly Packages" workflow dispatch from the GitHub UI. You can choose which branch to fire up a build from.

Release

Triggering a "release" workflow dispatch works just like nightly builds but you're looking for the "Build Test and Publish a Release" workflow. Choose a branch like "releases/1.0a6".

Building Locally

It is possible to execute package build and test stages locally for linux targets using Docker:

Build Stage

Build the packages for a given target:

make TARGET=<target> build

See the Makefile for the list of supported targets. The Makefile also takes the following optional arguments:

• SRC_REF: EdgeDB git ref to build, defaults to master;
• PKG_REVISION: numeric revision of the output package;
• PKG_SUBDIST: name of repository the package is intended for, currently the only supported value is nightly;
• OUTPUTDIR: the name of the directory where the build artifacts will be stored;
• METAPKGDEV: when set to true, uses metapkg from the current virtualenv instead of pulling it from Github, this is useful for debugging or making changes to metapkg;
• EXTRA_OPTIMIZATIONS: build with extra optimizations enabled, this significantly increases the build time, but results in sligtly faster binaries;
• GET_SHELL: when set to true, start the shell instead of running the build.

Test Stage

Test the packages built with make build:

make TARGET=<target> test

The values of the TARGET and OUTPUTDIR variables must be the same as used for make build.

There is also a test variant that checks systemd integration:

make TARGET=<target> test-systemd

Note that this requires the ability to run Docker containers with CAP_ADMIN.

Adding Targets and Modifying Build

Adding a target for an existing distribution family usually boils down to running mkdir {build,test,testpublished}/<distro>, adding <distro> to SUPPORTED_TARGETS in the toplevel Makefile, and running make TARGET=<distro> build to generate the containers and test the build.

Adding support for new distributions requires implementing a new target in metapkg.