Add iOS builds to nFPM deb pkgs

[blacktop]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

No problem, but there is a community of people that pkg bins/apps for jailbroken phones etc and this would make it much easier for them to include my tools in their distros.

Describe the solution you'd like

I believe that we could also pkg the GOOS ios GOARCH arm64 builds into deb pkgs if we set the "Architecture: field in the control file to iphoneos-arm64".

Is that possible to add as a config?

Describe alternatives you've considered

I'm not sure how else to do this?

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Additional context

I think from a UX point of view you would just add ios as a one of the builds to be packaged and it would auto set the iphoneos-arm64 and apologies if you have already implemented this.

[blacktop]

I just tested it and all non-linux builds are ignored in the nfpms config

[caarlos0]

wait... jailbroken iphones can install debs?

if so... can we run automated tests on github actions? if not, I'd be inclined to not implement this.

[blacktop]

@CRKatri ? I assume that it's not testable unless macOS can also install debs?

[CRKatri]

You can test packaging them, and the code should be identical to the packaging code used for Linux debs. You obviously can't test running the iOS binaries with GitHub actions, you could probably do something with corellium, but that's very expensive for no real benefit.

[blacktop]

@CRKatri I can see where @caarlos0 is testing his debs here - https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/blob/main/Taskfile.yml#L162

Is there a docker image that can approximate the iOS environment at least just from an installing debs point of view?

[CRKatri]

No. As I said though, as long as the Linux debs work, the ios debs will too.

[blacktop]

@caarlos0 is there a "generic" step for packaging that I could use to create these debs should you choose not to implement?

[caarlos0]

if its just setting that arch, you can use nfpm directly... but within goreleaser, no there isn't...

[Elara6331]

wait... jailbroken iphones can install debs?

Yes, the jailbreaking tools actually install dpkg and apt on them.

if so... can we run automated tests on github actions? if not, I'd be inclined to not implement this.

You wouldn't be able to test on iOS itself, but as I said, it uses unmodified apt just like Debian/Ubuntu, so the current tests should be sufficient, goreleaser and nfpm would just have to allow setting GOOS to ios

[caarlos0]

goreleaser allows setting GOOS to ios, not sure if github actions et al build it though (pretty sure they don't without a good amount of modifications), but goreleaser will not package debs for ios.

maybe we could do something like:

nfpm:
- id: foo
  package_name: etc
  goos: ios

so, goos is linux by default, but users can specify ios as well. Is that the only modification needed?

[blacktop]

I believe we would also need to ensure in your nfpm pkg that ios/arm64 would map to:

Architecture: field in the control file to iphoneos-arm64

[blacktop]

I was thinking you could add support for an ios build to be added to the nfpm builds array, but then you'd have to handle/worry about people trying to include other GOOSes etc into the future so I like you suggest of just having ios be another option for this small edge case. 👍

[blacktop]

Also just FYI in order to build GOOS ios in goreleaser you have to do this - https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw/blob/master/.goreleaser.yml#L32 from a macOS host/VM.

Also I've been using Zig for cross compiling instead of using a FULL Github Action VM or one of those docker images and it has be working GREAT and might be something you'd want to officially support via goreleaser in the future 😎

[caarlos0]

I believe we would also need to ensure in your nfpm pkg that ios/arm64 would map to:

Architecture: field in the control file to iphoneos-arm64

yes, that would be the idea...

[caarlos0]

I was thinking you could add support for an ios build to be added to the nfpm builds array, but then you'd have to handle/worry about people trying to include other GOOSes etc into the future so I like you suggest of just having ios be another option for this small edge case. 👍

hmm, that might be even simpler, as the majority of projects don't build for ios anyway...

will think about it for a bit... having a rough couple of weeks personal life wise, but will see what I can do...

[blacktop]

Really appreciate everything you do @caarlos0 ❤️

[caarlos0]

check out #3436

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