[pve-devel] [RFC PATCH installer] buildsys: add static version of proxmox-auto-install-assistant

[Christoph Heiss]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 11:31:05PM +0100, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> Am 16.08.24 um 18:19 schrieb Christoph Heiss:
> > This adds a separate debian package to the build, containing a
> > statically-built version of `proxmox-auto-install-assistant`, as
> > was suggested in #4788 [0] (for proxmox-backup-client), separately by
> > Thomas also.
> > [..]
> > ---
> > Marked RFC to see if the packaging is overall sane -- I haven't done a
> > lot of (Debian) packaging yet, so please don't hesitate with
> > suggestions.
>
> That looks alright to me, only open question is IMO if we want to have the
> compat symlink or avoid that and allow installing both in parallel (mostly
> useful for testing, but slightly worse UX for users, no hard feelings here)

I would side with the better UX side of things. While yes, makes having
both installed at the same impossible, I don't think we should
necessarily degrade ease-of-testing over better UX.

Also, since it is a static binary after all, building and/or grabbing it
from e.g. some share for testing would be easy enough TBH.