I have a service and companion utilities that runs on both debian and
ubuntu (to start...)
This is linux-specific, requiring root permissions of the server service
since I am making adjustments to file permissions for the purposes of an
extensible archiving system for end-users (the server validates any
requests made over a unix file socket based on a peer's uid and gid, and
manages files for archival for the user -yes, turns out you can get that
info from a file socket on linux; you can't with a network socket...)
I made a python3 script for the server service and a python3 install
script that sets up everything right for the server service. Because it
is doing some pretty privileged service setup, root permissions are
needed for the installation script. Right now the programs check the
effective uid of the operator, and if it's not root it exits with a
message that root is required (so it could be done with sudo or su...)
Here's an important point: I need to install a few linux packages (my
python install script does that by shelling to apt-get...); I get the
appropriate package names for the distro in question (my install script
consults a file that comes with it...) Right now if the distro is not
debian or ubuntu, it tells the person installing that the distro is
unsupported and exits.
I tried doing a search on this, but I am getting a hell of a lot of
noise in the results. My question is: can pypy be used to distribute a
linux-oriented installer for specific distros such as I describe here?
Can you point me at the documentation to do that, or a good example pypy
package that does something like this?? [Because it is closely coupled
to linux API calls and has to be root, I do not have it use venv...]
I am now also working on distro-specific install packages; but it would
be nice to open access to any and all pypy users...
