I considered a PPA at first but I think that's an Ubuntu/Launchpad-specific thing? Eventually I want to target Debian too and I liked the idea of hosting the files myself. I'm new to this kind of packaging stuff so I'm not sure what is best.
On 04/12/2013 02:25 PM, Xavier Lange wrote: > Hey Justin, > > Very cool! Thanks for posting about it. Have you considered putting it > in a ppa? > > Since my system already uses chef I wrote a mongrel2 cookbook. People > may find it useful: > https://github.com/xrl/sdfp-chef/tree/master/cookbooks/mongrel2 . It > builds against my fork of mongrel2 but it could easily be tweaked for > upstream. > > Xavier > > On Friday, April 12, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Justin Karneges wrote: > >> Per earlier discussion, I've created an Ubuntu package and apt >> repository. I've built on quantal (12.10). I'm not sure about distro >> compatibility but maybe it works on older Ubuntu's and Debian. >> >> Install the signing key: >> curl http://packages.fanout.io/debian/key.asc | sudo apt-key add - >> >> Add the apt source: >> deb http://packages.fanout.io/debian unstable main >> >> Then: >> sudo apt-get update >> sudo apt-get mongrel2-core >> >> Open issues: >> - No high-level "mongrel2" package yet. This is the -core package >> only, which includes binaries but no startup scripts. >> - The build links against the system libzmq, which has issues with >> chroot (which I believ e is due to libpgm). I think if you mount /proc >> and maybe others within the chrooted area then it can be made to work >> but I'm not sure. My personal use case doesn't use chroot. >> - Probably should be made to target lowest common denominator distro >> (Debian) for best compatibility but I'm not sure the best way to do this. >> >> Justin >
