Status of packaging for dool

[aijanai]

SUMMARY

Hi,

I'd like to inquire about the current status and ongoing efforts for dool packaging and distribution.

dool seems to offer snap and rpm packages, but is not present in any of the major Unix distributions' repos.

We might want to elect some maintainers for:

• Mac brew
• Ubuntu
• Centos/RHEL
• Python pip

Anything going on or contributions accepted by the author?

Thanks

[curoky]

Homebrew/homebrew-core#87693
I am writing homebrew formula for dool, but it hasn't released yet. #4

[pmoranga]

Where can I find the RPM package built from it ?

[scottchiefbaker]

This is a great idea. I'd love to see dool packaged for more distros, and it should be very simple. I just updated the .spec file and it now builds correctly (I think) on my Rocky 8 system. I would accept any PRs for package maintainers.

Packaging dool should be simple and you can follow the flow in the install.py script.

1. The dool script itself needs to go in your $PATH
2. Plug-ins go in either /usr/share/dool/ or ~/.dool/
3. The man page should go in /usr/share/man1/

[raylu]

haha I wrote a brew formula but dool doesn't work on macOS because it doesn't have /proc. leaving it here for posterity in case dool one day does

class Dool < Formula
  desc "Monitor your system"
  homepage "https://github.com/scottchiefbaker/dool"
  url "https://github.com/scottchiefbaker/dool/archive/refs/tags/v1.3.0.tar.gz"
  sha256 "a1537c27e62d12d00d79f60bec456e6a2ec4a0189d44a28ac1ed9effdcb0ec2d"
  license "GPL-3.0-or-later"
  depends_on "python"

  def install
    bin.install "dool"
    man1.install "docs/dool.1"
    pkgshare.install Dir["plugins/*.py"]
  end
end

[anarcat]

debian is tracked in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1032875

[scottchiefbaker]

@anarcat that's good to know I hadn't seen that yet. Looks like Debian needs to be poked/updated as Dool is very mature now and well supported.

[scottchiefbaker]

I have submitted a request to have dool included in RHEL distros.

[scottchiefbaker]

@aijanai do you have any experience packaging things? I'd love to see this packages for Redhat and Debian but I don't have much experience with that.

[scottchiefbaker]

Thanks to Uroš Knupleš we have preliminary deb support in #81 now

[aijanai]

@aijanai do you have any experience packaging things? I'd love to see this packages for Redhat and Debian but I don't have much experience with that.

Saw now. Yeah, I previously had experience with both systems. I can give it a try

[scottchiefbaker]

@aijanai we currently have packaging for: RHEL (unofficial), Python/PIP, and Debian. As a primarily RedHat user I'd love to get dool into the official RedHat repositories but I don't know enough about packaging Python applications to make it happen.