Package for Clear Linux

[probonopd]

Clear Linux OS is a performance-oriented distribution by Intel with interesting features (that align well with AppImage philosophy), without a traditional package manager. It boots from scratch to a full desktop in about 4 seconds(!) on my moderate system.

We should get appimaged packaged properly for it. The appimaged AppImage runs just fine on Clear Linux OS after having made the FUSE kernel module load automatically like this:

sudo su
mkdir -p /etc/modules-load.d/
echo "fuse" > /etc/modules-load.d/fuse.conf
reboot

[probonopd]

As a first step, been trying to produce RPMs which are apparently used by Clear Linux at build (not install or run) time.

https://github.com/AppImage/appimaged/commits/feature/rpm
@TheAssassin please have a look at it. Me dabbling in CMake after having not touched it for many years.

[probonopd]

Blocked by #6

[probonopd]

https://youtu.be/ND16Ub8oWLo?t=1785 describes how to package something for Clear Linux OS:

29:53
software package right so for example if
you want to build you know your own
hello world software and we don't have
it available upstream already then you
would go through the autospec tool to
basically build an RPM package and then
you feed that to a mixer and then you
build a bundle out of that and then you
basically put that on your own update
server where your clear Linux will then
pull its updates from right so basically
at that point you forked

So it seems like adding software to the native Clear Linux OS software management requires one to fork the whole distribution.

This is hardly a great model for distributing third-party end-user applications. Hence I think AppImage is a great addition to complement this OS!