Sfx autoinstaller

[deajan]

Since .deb and .rpm are not yet ready for all Linux OSes, especially old ones, I decided to create a SFX script that can deploy current pam-ssh-agent library compiled with an old glibc (2.17) so it can run virtually on any linux that is less than 10 years old.

Has been tested on RHEL8-10 and Debian 11-13 and Ubuntu 24 so far.

If you don't feel like having a pre-compiled library in this PR, let me know so I'll leave the build recipe without binaries.

[nresare]

Hi! Thank you for looking into this. I have no prior experience of sfx at all, so I will need to allocate some time to learn more. As long as the linux distributions you are targeting are supported by the upstream vendor I have nothing against referencing some convenient mechanism for broadening that support.

I am not in the business of redistributing binaries, unless they are built using a trusted build system from known source code.

In short, I'll get back to you once I have looked at your contribution closer.

[deajan]

Thank you for your answer.
I understand that distributing binaries isn't exactly the best way, but then again having impossible dependency standards for building .deb/.rpm is insane.
I wonder who decided that rust code can't be distributed without source, whereas C code can, when it comes to build packages. Doesn't make sense to me, at all...

Anyway, let me know if you want me to change/improve anything in that PR. I'll be happy to do so.

[deajan]

Did you get some time to look into this ?