Proposal: Create Official APT Repository for Caido Desktop Releases

[ebauger]

Hey Caido Team!
@Sytten , @Corb3nik

I've got a suggestion for you: let's set up an official pkg.caido.io or deb.caido.io repository for Debian and its friends. This would make installing Caido super easy for tons of users!

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How Caido Installs Now (via zbranch.io)

Right now, folks can install Caido using the pkg.zbranch.io repository with these commands:

curl -fsSL https://pkg.zbranch.io/signing_key.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/pkg-zbranch-io.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/pkg-zbranch-io.gpg] https://pkg.zbranch.io/ caido main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pkg-zbranch-io.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install caido

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What to do if you like the idea?

If you're on board with creating your own official repo, here's what you'd need to do:

• Add Your GPG Private Key to GitHub Actions: You'll need to set this up as a secret. You can generate the key using aptify init-keys.

• Add Your RCLONE_CONFIG to GitHub Actions: This also needs to be a secret. Here's an example of what that configuration might look like:

  [pkg.caido.io]
  type = s3
  provider = Cloudflare
  access_key_id = ***
  secret_access_key = ***
  region = auto
  endpoint = ***
  no_check_bucket = true
  

• Tweak your Github Workflow: You'll want to adapt your .github/workflows/update-apt-repo.yml workflow to work with your new rclone configuration.

What do you think? I'm happy to help if you have any questions!

[Sytten]

Thanks for providing the basis for this. I agree we should do that. It might look. A bit different since we will likely publish from our internal tooling, but I really appreciate the contribution :)

[ebauger]

Thanks for providing the basis for this. I agree we should do that. It might look. A bit different since we will likely publish from our internal tooling, but I really appreciate the contribution :)

This is a suggested implementation, but I expect it will vary depending on your internal tools.

I used Cloudflare's R2 to run an S3 instance and rclone and aptify.

Another question @Sytten: I have another proposal to amend the .deb packages. Where I should put the proposal ?

[Sytten]

Yeah cloudflare is great, we already use it for caido.download.

For the deb improvements can you open an issue on the caido/caido repo. FYI we us electron-builder v25 to build them at the moment.

[Sytten]

Sorry this was not prioritized, still planned but we have more urgent things to do right now.
We will be renaming caido-cli to caido-server in the upcoming release.