Packaging as Solus and Serpent Converge

chrisdebian Can anyone share a link to the packages currently available in the distro; I did check Repology, but would rather go to the primary list.

The easiest way is to just boot to live CD on VM and browse away via eopkg or "Software Center" .

chrisdebian Can anyone share the packaging guide we should use, if we want to bring new software into the repos?

Help Center right now available on github. It might become available on the website again sometime in the future.

chrisdebian A simple list of packages can be found in our "common" repository here: https://dev.getsol.us/source/common/browse/master/packages

Note that this only lists package recipe repositories, so if a recipe builds several packages this will not be reflected here. Still good enough for a basic overview.

chrisdebian Yes, when/after the merge with Serpent happens the Solus packages will be in the .stone format that moss handles, instead of .eopkg

@chrisdebian to see serpent current serpent packages you would look at https://github.com/snekpit/main For instance, nano: https://github.com/snekpit/main/blob/main/console/nano/stone.yml

A few things to know:

• If you want to try serpent packaging you need https://github.com/serpent-os/onboarding
• Serpent is organized as a mono-repo: one big repo holding everything; organized with directories. Solus uses one repo per package
• The stone.yaml format will look very familiar, but it is not identical
• Serpent doesn't have help docs yets, we've been chucking it all on the forum: https://forums.serpentos.com/d/55-packaging-guidelines-draft/4