albatross.deb for ubuntu 22.04 about albatross HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi @nickbetteridge,

Thank you for your report and for using the packaging script.

Regarding 2. you can use dune subst. It modifies the source tree to replace %%VERSION%% etc. You should do a dune build after this.
I believe steps 4 & 5 can be done with sudo apt install ./albatross.deb.
Regarding your observation with solo5-hvt albatross looks for the solo5 tender first in $PATH and if not found there it looks in /var/lib/albatross/ on Linux (the so called "dbdir" in the man pages). This suggests you did not have solo5-hvt installed anywhere in $PATH. We also provide packaging scripts for solo5 in a fork (unfortunately lacking a bit behind upstream at the moment...). Otherwise, you can build and copy the solo5-hvt and solo5-spt binaries and copy them to /var/lib/albatross/.

The packaging scripts were mainly written in order to provide binary packages at https://builds.robur.coop/, but they should be usable outside that context. I will look into providing binary packages for ubuntu 22.04 at builds.robur.coop soon.

Thank you for the netplan example. We find that many people (including me) struggle with network setup, so another example is welcome.

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Greetings @reynir - thanks for getting back to me

1. dune subst - ah, at last - something that probably everyone knows except for me! Thanks
2. solo5 tender in $PATH - good point - it's in my path but forgot to add it to the deb path
3. I had a problem with sudo apt install ./albatross.deb (can't remember what), but used sudo dpkg -i ./albatross.deb and it worked fine

Thanks again for pointing out all of these things to me - very grateful

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