Distributing Rootbeer

The default embedded-stdlib feature packages the Lua standard library and type metadata inside rb. The resulting binary can run without a separate Lua installation or standard-library checkout.

cargo build --locked --release

Distributions that require Lua source files on disk can disable that feature and choose a compile-time standard-library directory:

ROOTBEER_LUA_DIR=/usr/share/rootbeer/lua \
  cargo build --locked --release --no-default-features

Ship the repository's lua/rootbeer/ tree under that directory. Users can override the directory with rb --lua-dir /path/to/lua apply.

rb embeds the package index's initial TUF root, the index URL, and the bootstrap channel's verification keys. Recipes are never bundled in the executable. See index hosting and trust.

Ship rb-helper beside rb. The first command that needs /opt/rb runs sudo rb-helper setup <group> from the directory rb lives in.

A build without RB_SERIAL never relaunches into a newer released rb.