[EPIC] Package Management Support

[aj-stein-nist]

User Story:

An an OSCAL tools developer, in order to efficiently and quickly make use of this CLI tool, I would to have versioned oscal-cli releases packaged for different operating systems and environments for rapid use and operation.

We already have a community Docker package from #45, but this is around operating system package support for the oscal-cli as a separate kind of request, although related.

Individual requests for package managers:

• Downloadable DEB Packages for Debian/Ubuntu Linux #50 (from [EPIC] Package Management Support #49 (comment))
• Downloadable RPM Packages for Amazon/CentOS/RedHat Linux #51 (from [EPIC] Package Management Support #49 (comment))
• Downloadable Packages for Windows and Chocolatey #52 (from [EPIC] Package Management Support #49 (comment))

Goals:

NOTE: This is an epic. Do you want to see support for a particular package manager? Please add a comment, work to add an issue for discussing or tracking the merge of code for adding building your package in the CI/CD. NIST OSCAL staff that are maintainers of this repo can work to update the list below to track linked issues in the epic for specific package manager requests.

Dependencies:

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Acceptance Criteria

• All website and readme documentation affected by the changes in this issue have been updated.
• A Pull Request (PR) is submitted that fully addresses the goals of this User Story. This issue is referenced in the PR.
• The CI-CD build process runs without any reported errors on the PR. This can be confirmed by reviewing that all checks have passed in the PR.

[aj-stein-nist]

During today's Lunch with Devs call, @GaryGapinski is favorable to Linux package manager and finds them preferable to popular third-party macOS managers (e.g. homebrew, port from MacPorts). He recommended if possible, we find the optimal way to package the CLI for different Linux distributions with the most coverage (.deb for Ubuntu and Debian flavored Linux distros; .rpm for RedHat-flavored distros like RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, Amazon Linux, et cetera; potentially others).

Action-item from me: will add issues requesting .deb and .rpm generation separately, add tracker issues. If you are reading this and you want a different kind of Linux package manager package (like for OpenSuse or dare I say Arch Linux), you need to post to reply to this comment.

[aj-stein-nist]

Also, consider Chocolatey for Windows, per request from @Ikendiken in today's Lunch with Devs call.

Interested in other third-party package managers like winget? You need to reply to this comment separately and show interest!

[DavidAllardyce]

Yeah, Chocolatey and winget for Windows would be nice and, of course, NuGet is a must have for libs.

[xee5ch]

I would also enjoy asdf if that is possible.

[xee5ch]

I would also enjoy asdf if that is possible.

An alpha version of the asdf plugin for oscal-cli releases has been created by yours truly. Is there a desire @david-waltermire-nist to document these somewhere as it pertains to the repo here?