jellyfin/deployment

Jellyfin Packaging

This directory contains the packaging configuration of Jellyfin for multiple platforms. The specification is below; all package platforms must follow the specification to be compatable with the central build script.

Package List

Operating System Packages

• debian-package-x64: Package for Debian and Ubuntu amd64 systems.
• fedora-package-x64: Package for Fedora, CentOS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux amd64 systems.

Portable Builds (archives)

• debian-x64: Portable binary archive for Debian amd64 systems.
• ubuntu-x64: Portable binary archive for Ubuntu amd64 systems.
• linux-x64: Portable binary archive for generic Linux amd64 systems.
• osx-x64: Portable binary archive for MacOS amd64 systems.
• win-x64: Portable binary archive for Windows amd64 systems.
• win-x86: Portable binary archive for Windows i386 systems.

Other Builds

These builds are not necessarily run from the build script, but are present for other platforms.

• framework: Compiled .dll for use with .NET Core runtime on any system.
• docker: Docker manifests for auto-publishing.
• unraid: unRaid Docker template; not built by build but imported into unRaid directly.
• win-generic: Portable binary for generic Windows systems.

Package Specification

Dependencies

• If a platform requires additional build dependencies, the required binary names, i.e. to validate which <binary>, should be specified in a dependencies.txt file inside the platform directory.

• Each dependency should be present on its own line.

Action Scripts

• Actions are defined in BASH scripts with the name <action>.sh within the platform directory.

• The list of valid actions are:

  1. build: Builds a set of binaries.
  2. package: Assembles the compiled binaries into a package.
  3. sign: Performs signing actions on a package.
  4. publish: Performs a publishing action for a package.
  5. clean: Cleans up any artifacts from the previous actions.

• All package actions are optional, however at least one should generate output files, and any that do should contain a clean action.

• Actions are executed in the order specified above, and later actions may depend on former actions.

• Actions except for clean should set -o errexit to terminate on failed actions.

• The clean action should always exit 0 even if no work is done or it fails.

• The clean action can be passed a variable as argument 1, named keep_artifacts, containing either the value y or n. It is indended to handle situations when the user runs build --keep-artifacts and should be handled intelligently. Usually, this is used to preserve Docker images while still removing temporary directories.

Output Files

• Upon completion of the defined actions, at least one output file must be created in the <platform>/pkg-dist directory.

• Output files will be moved to the directory jellyfin-build/<platform> one directory above the repository root upon completion.

Common Functions

• A number of common functions are defined in deployment/common.build.sh for use by platform scripts.

• Each action script should import the common functions to define a number of standard variables.

• The common variables are:

  • ROOT: The Jellyfin repostiory root, usually ../...
  • CONFIG: The .NET config, usually Release.
  • DOTNETRUNTIME: The .NET --runtime value, platform-dependent.
  • OUTPUT_DIR: The intermediate output dir, usually ./dist/jellyfin_${VERSION}.
  • BUILD_CONTEXT: The Docker build context, usually ../...
  • DOCKERFILE: The Dockerfile, usually Dockerfile in the platform directory.
  • IMAGE_TAG: A tag for the built Docker image.
  • PKG_DIR: The final binary output directory for collection, invariably pkg-dist.
  • ARCHIVE_CMD: The compression/archive command for release archives, usually tar -xvzf or zip.

get_version

Reads the version information from SharedVersion.cs.

Arguments: ROOT

build_jellyfin

Build a standard self-contained binary in the current OS context.

Arguments: ROOT CONFIG DOTNETRUNTIME OUTPUT_DIR

build_jellyfin_docker

Build a standard self-contained binary in a Docker image.

Arguments: BUILD_CONTEXT DOCKERFILE IMAGE_TAG

clean_jellyfin

Clean up a build for housekeeping.

Arguments: ROOT CONFIG OUTPUT_DIR PKG_DIR

package_portable

Produce a compressed archive.

Arguments: ROOT OUTPUT_DIR PKG_DIR ARCHIVE_CMD