Erlang debian packages

CloudAMQP built erlang debian packages. Named esl-erlang for compability with rabbitmq-server which depends on esl-erlang (or erlang-base, but the multi-package approach is difficult).

Building is done in Dockerfile and GitHub Action uploads the packages to PackageCloud.

Excluded erlang packages:

• wx
• megaco
• odbc
• java

Versions

Every version of Erlang ≥ 24.2 that is released on GitHub is built, currently for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04, and Debian 12.

Caveat

GitHub disables the scheduled workflow if there hasn't been activity in this repository for at least 60 days. Need to manually enable the workflow to resume scheduled runs.

Install

Install from https://packagecloud.io/cloudamqp/erlang

When sudo is required:

. /etc/os-release
curl -L https://packagecloud.io/cloudamqp/erlang/gpgkey | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/cloudamqp-erlang.gpg
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudamqp-erlang.list << EOF
deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/cloudamqp-erlang.gpg] https://packagecloud.io/cloudamqp/erlang/$ID $VERSION_CODENAME main
EOF
sudo apt update
sudo apt install esl-erlang

On a bare system, eg. in a container:

apt update && apt install -y curl gnupg
. /etc/os-release
curl -L https://packagecloud.io/cloudamqp/erlang/gpgkey | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/keyrings/cloudamqp-erlang.gpg
tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudamqp-erlang.list << EOF
deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/cloudamqp-erlang.gpg] https://packagecloud.io/cloudamqp/erlang/$ID $VERSION_CODENAME main
EOF
apt update
apt install esl-erlang

Development

To test if a erlang version builds well you can use the tester stage in the Dockerfile:

podman build --target tester --build-arg image=ubuntu:jammy --build-arg erlang_version=26.0 --build-arg rabbitmq_version=3.13.0 .

https://depot.dev/ is used for building multi-plaform images on native hardware, the Dockerfile used to be crosscompiling, but not anymore as it increases complexity.