Versioned binaries as debs for testing

[driv3r]

In addition to regular packages, we will publish extra ones, like ghostferry-sharding_4bc2247. With this we will be able to install 2 packages with their binaries and they won't collide. This should allow for easier testing next versions.

Tophat

Fetch deb packages from build and keep them in current directory - one for default build and one versioned (mind the architecture), I've attached example ones from release and current build, i.e.

• default: ghostferry-sharding_1.1.0+20251002+4bc2247_arm64.deb
• versioned: ghostferry-sharding-1469325_1.1.0+20251216+1469325_arm64.deb

Then create following docker file

FROM debian:12-slim

COPY *_arm64.deb /

RUN dpkg -i ghostferry-sharding_1.1.0+20251002+4bc2247_arm64.deb 
RUN dpkg -i ghostferry-sharding-1469325_1.1.0+20251216+1469325_arm64.deb

CMD [/bin/sh]

Build podman build -f Dockerfile -t versioned-debs:latest

Then run with podman run -it versioned-debs:latest /bin/sh and check we have all commands

$> ls -l /usr/bin/ghostferry-sharding*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 1001 1001 21075718 Oct  2 15:45 /usr/bin/ghostferry-sharding
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 1001 1001 21075718 Dec 16 15:10 /usr/bin/ghostferry-sharding-1469325

$> ghostferry-sharding --version
1.1.0+20251002+4bc2247
$> ghostferry-sharding-1469325 --version
1.1.0+20251216+1469325

[grodowski]

(we paired on this)