Re: AppImage

[gbWilly <gbWilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, March 3rd, 2025 at 00:08, Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 02/03/2025 à 23:35, gbWilly a écrit :

> > I would expect 'noble main' instead of the '/' OSB does at the end, but it seems to work
> 
> 
> This is what I meant by "badly documented".

I did add quite a few deb lines over the years to my sources file, but I have never encountered this syntax before, always the one I stated before (and as documented by both Debian and Ubuntu). I guess it's an OSB twist to things as openSUSE is not Debian nor Ubuntu.

They have 1 separate repository for the binaries for each Ubuntu distro. Ubuntu PPA has all the binaries for all the Ubuntu distro's in one and the same repository. I also make my repositories with all binaries in one pool for 3 Debian and 3 Ubuntu distro (and with 3 different architectures). That is how it can be done and probably should be done. Maybe that is the reason why things in Debian require some more complexity, to make it possible to let this all happen in one place, for many distro's and architectures.

So, in case of the Ubuntu PPA the addition of noble or focal, or whatever Ubuntu distro available in the repository (read PPA), to the deb line is to determine what binaries to install from the pool. Since Ubuntu24.04 repository on OSB only has binaries for Ubuntu24.04, what they do seems to work. Maybe they discovered a glitch ;-)

gbWilly