Karl Bowden wrote:
On 8 March 2010 22:00, Dave Hall <dave.h...@skwashd.com
<mailto:dave.h...@skwashd.com>> wrote:
...
> Is this a reasonable list? Is there a product that fits the bill?
Firstly, thanks to Dave & Karl for their suggestions. I played with
reprepro for a few minutes and it seems to do the job.
I can't help with the build side of things, all my package building
isn't automated.
What do you use for your package building? I have been using
dpkg-buildpackage so far, and it seems to be reasonable once you have
all the control files set up, although it is a bit clunky sometimes.
Even though i've been a sold-out Debian/Ubuntu user since 2003, i must
say that Red Hat make it a lot easier to learn to package in RPM format
than Debian & Ubuntu do in dpkg format.
For the serving of packages I use reprepro and nginx,
for info check out the blog post I prepared earlier
http://davehall.com.au/blog/dave/2010/02/06/howto-setup-private-package-repository-reprepro-nginx
I think it ticks all the boxes except #6 out of the box, but a quick
shell script should help with the archiving bit. I keep all of my
packaging stuff in version control so I don't need to keep old
versions
kicking around.
I keep all of my stuff in subversion, with tags for each release, but i
find it easier to keep the built packages than to rebuild from source if
i want to go back to a previous version.
I'll second Dave's suggestion of reprepro and nginx.
The comment at the end of Dave's blog post was mine, and I have since
moved from using apache to nginx too.
I've already got a full Apache vhost setup, so i assume that i can keep
this and there's nothing special about the differences between Apache &
nginx?
I use pbuilder to maintain a few packages for the systems I maintain.
From pbuilder I target amd64 & i386, jaunty & karmic. I know pbuilder
also supports building to debian targets on the same system too, but
have not had a need to try it yet.
I expect to build on Debian lenny amd64 and deploy on karmic & lenny,
both i386 & amd64. Does pbuilder help with that?
From there I debsign the .changes files and import them into reprepro.
Do you use a separate command to bring in the .changes files, or can you
bring in all the right bits of your packages with one command? It
sounds like there is still a lot of manual scripting that needs to take
place.
Paul
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