use signal-cli from packages

[morph027]

Proposal on how to solve oracle/graal#4143.

If it stops you from pushing new images, your Dockerfile can use the prebuilt packages and you can still update your code without the hassle of building native images.

Signed-off-by: morph027 stefan.heitmueller@gmx.com

[bbernhard]

Thanks a lot for the PR! I would love to use your arm64 native image builds! (YesterdayI even deployed several different machines on the digitalocean cloud for testing, but unfortunately I wasn't able to get a single working arm64 build).

As I am sometimes building signal-cli directly from a specific git commit hash (mainly during development or regression testing), I think it would work better for me to keep the existing structure and only use your arm64 native image builds for now. I think the easiest is probably to do this here. This gives me the flexibility to build signal-cli (from a specific git commit or with some local modifications for debugging) on my x86-64 development machine and use your arm64 native images for a release.

[bbernhard]

Hope you don't mind, but I just quickly the above on a git branch for some testing.

While doing so, I've noticed that only the last version of signal-cli-native is available in your repo (at least that's what apt list -a signal-cli-native showed me). I do not know much about packaging software, but would it maybe be possible to keep the old versions in the repository as well? In order to get more reproducible builds I like to pin signal-cli-(native) to a specific version. :)

[morph027]

The repo is configured to keep versions, but i just started building w/ the latest one ;)

[bbernhard]

The repo is configured to keep versions, but i just started building w/ the latest one ;)

Ah, great! That's perfect. Thanks a lot!

[morph027]

There you go ;)

# apt-cache policy signal-cli-native 
signal-cli-native:
  Installed: 0.10.0-11
  Candidate: 0.10.2-0
  Version table:
     0.10.2-0 500
        500 https://packaging.gitlab.io/signal-cli signalcli/main amd64 Packages
 *** 0.10.0-11 500
        500 https://packaging.gitlab.io/signal-cli signalcli/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[bbernhard]

There you go ;)

# apt-cache policy signal-cli-native 
signal-cli-native:
  Installed: 0.10.0-11
  Candidate: 0.10.2-0
  Version table:
     0.10.2-0 500
        500 https://packaging.gitlab.io/signal-cli signalcli/main amd64 Packages
 *** 0.10.0-11 500
        500 https://packaging.gitlab.io/signal-cli signalcli/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Thanks for letting me know!

The strange thing however is, that for some reason I can only download the latest release.

So, this works:

apt-get download signal-cli-native=0.10.2-1

But this

apt-get download signal-cli-native=0.10.2-0

fails with E: Failed to fetch https://packaging.gitlab.io/signal-cli/pool/main/s/signal-cli-native/signal-cli-native_0.10.2-0_arm64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 35.185.44.232 443]

The same for apt-get download signal-cli-native=0.10.0-11. This also fails with: E: Failed to fetch https://packaging.gitlab.io/signal-cli/pool/main/s/signal-cli-native/signal-cli-native_0.10.0-11_arm64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 35.185.44.232 443]

Does it work for you?

[morph027]

Hm, you're right, it's missing in the artifacts, but is included in the metadata. Weird. Will have a look into it.

[morph027]

Was related to the CI Cache, fixed it for now 🚀

[bbernhard]

works like a charm 🎉 Thanks a lot for the quick fix!

[moppman]

As of signal-cli v0.11.4, there are now "official" native image builds.
Should make things a bit easier.