Setting Up Nanobox DNS for Elixir/Phoenix Application

[caryviolet]

and/or take over maintenance of nanobox-bin on aur
i got the first copy from aur
as that's typically the canonical way to do things
i'm saying that NOW...
since you HAVE a binary package
you might could consider sending it to someone at arch for inclusion in their repo?
and/or whoever builds your package can become an arch developer
so when you have updates, we get updates?

[danhunsaker]

OK, I'm sorry for the confusion, here. We do not release our software through distro repos at this time, partially because there are simply too many of them to support any properly. This may change in the future, but at the moment we lack that kind of manpower.

[caryviolet]

if you're building a binary package
you literally just have to ship it
i could write a curl script in 30s that'd do the trick for you
talk to your releng team

[danhunsaker]

I'm sorry there were issues caused by a third party adding our package to the Arch repos. That wasn't us. The only supported way of getting Nanobox has always been from our website.

[caryviolet]

tell them to ship packages with proper versions to arch if they're going to be building the package anyway
there's literally no change in process....
but no big deal, you have no idea what i'm talking about anyway.... have a nice day

[danhunsaker]

I know exactly what you're talking about, as I'm actually a dev here.
I'm just saying we aren't going to support any distro repos, yet, because of the complexity involved in supporting all of them. We provide one, we're expected to provide all.
Once we're in a better position to support the more complex distros, we'll definitely add Arch to that list, but until then, the only supported method of distribution is our website.
I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

[caryviolet]

so you don't have a package on launchpad then?

[danhunsaker]

We do not, no. That doesn't mean there isn't one, but it wasn't actually created, nor is it actually maintained, by Nanobox ourselves.

[caryviolet]

and honestly, you don't have to support all distros
because there's no way in hell you're supporting alpine
or nixos or any of those other relatively esoteric distros
or probably even more mainstream metadistros like gentoo
but if you're building a binary... you should be shipping it downstream to the distros to help promote your product

[danhunsaker]

I did misspeak somewhat, yes. I meant to say repos for all distros we support.

[caryviolet]

/me points at mysql as an example

even if it's just ppa/launchpad
i'm a sysadmin/devops guy
when i build binaries for things.... i build for everything i possibly can... and then i make it available in a way that can be updated by the user in their normal workflow
so if i need to push a fix to a breaking change, everybody gets it at once
instead of having to manually (i presume) update

[danhunsaker]

As I've said, support for installation via distro repos is coming at some point. We aren't there, yet, though. At the moment, users download from our website for the initial install, then run nanobox-update to install new versions after that.

[caryviolet]

fair enough
a bit sketch for some

[danhunsaker]

Unfortunately, the version you have at the moment doesn't have a recent enough nanobox-update to grab the correct version.

[caryviolet]

it's ok, i uninstalled it and installed a version that's apparently up to date (but unversioned)

[danhunsaker]

nanobox version will provide a version number and a revision hash.

[caryviolet]

lol
ragnar:~/nanobox/nanobox-phoenix$ nanobox version
Using nanobox with docker-machine requires tools that appear to not be available on your system.
netfs
View these requirements at docs.nanobox.io/install/requirements/docker-machine/
ignore that... but ya...
it's not an error/complaint
didn't have nfsd up

[danhunsaker]

I'm not sure why it's checking that the system is working properly for the version command... That is silly.

[caryviolet]

if nobody's said it to you recently, systemd is cancer

[danhunsaker]

I know. I don't decide what the (other) major distros are using, sadly.
What init system is Arch using?