Alexandros Kosiaris has uploaded a new change for review. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/147492
Change subject: Add package building instruction in the README ...................................................................... Add package building instruction in the README Change-Id: I46c3b4dcc244eb4e070fa28b51b4f71facf38580 --- M debian/README.Debian 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) git pull ssh://gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/operations/debs/kafka refs/changes/92/147492/1 diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian index 1c532b0..73d0753 100644 --- a/debian/README.Debian +++ b/debian/README.Debian @@ -5,3 +5,50 @@ for this is to satisfy debian policy that no internet connection should be required during package building as well as security concers about the downloaded JAR files by sbt + +How to build this package +------------------------- + +This repository is be used to build the kafka package using +git-buildpackage. Below we illustrate one of the ways this can work for +you: + +* Install some mandatory packages + $ apt-get install git-buildpackage + +* And some not so mandatory but nice to have packages + $ apt-get install pbuilder cowbuilder + +Note that pbuilder/cowbuilder is not strictly required but it will save +you from installing the dependencies manually + +* Create a cowbuilder environment (we assume you are building against +precise pangolin here) + + $ sudo DIST=precise git-pbuilder create --components "main universe" + +* Clone the repo + $ git clone http://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/operations/debs/kafka + $ cd kafka + +* Should the current version in the repo not be enough, set upstream and + fetch + + $ git remote add upstream http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kafka.git + $ git fetch upstream + +* Checkout the version you want to build against + $ git checkout debian-<VERSION> + + If the current version is not enough + $ git checkout -b debian-<GIT_TAG> <GIT_TAG> + +<GIT_TAG> should be a valid git tag. You can get them via git tag + +* Merge the debian branch on you new branch + $ git merge debian + +* Build + $ DIST=precise git-buildpackage -us -uc --git-builder="git-pbuilder" \ +--git-cleaner="fakeroot debian/rules clean" \ +--git-debian-branch=debian-<VERSION> -- To view, visit https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/147492 To unsubscribe, visit https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/settings Gerrit-MessageType: newchange Gerrit-Change-Id: I46c3b4dcc244eb4e070fa28b51b4f71facf38580 Gerrit-PatchSet: 1 Gerrit-Project: operations/debs/kafka Gerrit-Branch: debian Gerrit-Owner: Alexandros Kosiaris <akosia...@wikimedia.org> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-commits mailing list MediaWiki-commits@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-commits
