Bisq linux repos

[alkum]

Every Bisq release is packaged in different formats. For linux, we use deb and rpm. These are provided as release artefacts, so linux users have to manually download, verify and install them on every release.

One way to streamline this is to publish the linux binaries in deb and rpm linux repos (see #4563).

I looked into this and found that it's quite simple to create a deb or rpm repo. All that's needed is a webserver to serve static content¹. The bisq binary would then be copied there and repo metadata generated.

As a test, I tried to publish such a repo using GitHub Pages. However, our release binary is >100MB so it needs to be pushed via Git LFS. Unfortunately, GitHub Pages doesn't support Git LFS (see git-lfs/git-lfs#791).

Could this be done from another Bisq server, which is under our (i.e. a bonded role's) control? Like a dedicated subdomain, for example https://deb.bisq.network (cc bisq-network/roles#18)?

Or would it be better to try to host this on a 3rd party ²?

Footnotes

1. A static webserver, 3-400 MB of space and some way to new binaries (ssh, ftp, etc) during a release. ↩

2. https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/JFROG/Debian+Repositories ↩

[ripcurlx]

I think it would be a good idea to make the update/install process for Linux users more user friendly.