offer fat binaries for all supported platforms

[ThomasWaldmann]

It would be nice to have some (semi-)automated way to offer vorta (and borg) as pyinstaller fat binary for vorta releases:

• macOS (see also Packaged version doesn't start on old versions of macOS #79)
• Linux
• later: FreeBSD (see also port to freebsd #125)

Could use similar automation as seen in borg's Vagrantfile.

If easy enough, it could be done for every release or else just now and then.

[ThomasWaldmann]

btw, recently wanted to install vorta for an ubuntu user.

after preparing virtual env etc. wondered why I can't pip install vorta and then noticed I have only python 3.5 on ubuntu xenial (similar problem on debian stretch btw).

so, a fat linux binary with everything would really help for such cases.

[m3nu]

It's on my list. Really. :-)

[Hofer-Julian]

I recently read this tutorial: https://www.mfitzp.com/article/packaging-pyqt5-apps-with-fbs/

Might this be interesting for vorta?

[m3nu]

We already use Pyinstaller, which this project wraps. They just solve a few other problems on top of it. Some are already solved in Vorta (finding asset files, making installers), some aren't that relevant (shipping different files for each OS). Maybe these guys solve them better, but they also impose their folder structure on the project, which could be a bad thing.

Still good to know it exists. May be useful for a green field project that needs installers for many OSs.

[Hofer-Julian]

I see :)

[m3nu]

Added the first Linux binary. It got fairly large. 2x of macOS. UPX or zipping didn't make much difference. I guess there are more libraries included.

Would be helpful is someone could test it on different Linux platforms, like Arch or Debian.

[ThomasWaldmann]

I've seen a similar size difference for borg itself, so seems to be normal.

[ThomasWaldmann]

debian stretch (whonix, to be precise):

$ ./vorta-linux64 
[2469] Error loading Python lib '/tmp/_MEIMBkOkG/libpython3.6m.so.1.0': dlopen:
   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found
   (required by /tmp/_MEIMBkOkG/libpython3.6m.so.1.0)

Seems you need an older build platform. The borg 1.1.x binaries are still built on wheezy (which is out of support though). For borg 1.2 I guess we'll go to Debian stretch.

[ThomasWaldmann]

i also get a ton of issues on fedora-29, but not sure if they are caused by vorta or if just my VM is broken somehow.

[m3nu]

Thanks for testing. Will try some older VMs then.

[ThomasWaldmann]

about the huge size of the fat binaries: do you just include the borg fat binary? guess that means that a lot of stuff gets into the vorta fat binary twice (once bundled into the inner borg binary, once bundled again for the outer vorta binary). this could be optimized in future.

[m3nu]

True. Currently the Borg bin is embedded as well. (I actually didn't replace the macOS bin, which could explain some errors. Let me fix that.)

Having only 1 Python bin, etc for everything would be nice. I'm just not sure which borg command would be used in that case.