Forum OpenACS Development: First in a series of developments: a script that creates a debian package from an openacs package

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1: First in a series of developments: a script that creates a debian package from an openacs package
Posted by Jim Lynch on 02/06/07 01:49 AM
Most of the info is in the readme; feel free to post here or email me with any questions, comments, suggestions, or anything really.

You can find it in a file storage folder on jam.sessionsnet.org.

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3: Re: First in a series of developments: a script that creates a debian package from an openacs package (response to 2)
Posted by Jim Lynch on 02/07/07 12:23 AM
Heya Jade... did you get it to work?
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4: Re: First in a series of developments: a script that creates a debian package from an openacs package (response to 1)
Posted by Orzenil Silva Junior on 02/08/07 01:36 AM
Hi Jim,

great contribution, thanks. Scripts worked for me to create debianized packages.

I read your TODO list at http://jam.sessionsnet.org/files/download/README?version_id=9425 and seems much of that work about generate a debian package that builds a service in a specified place was done by Dirk Gomez and already commited to cvs.

Maybe you could take a look at http://cvs.openacs.org/cvs/openacs-dist/ to evaluate if that work could help you. I am using for now an adapted version of create-package.sh from openacs-dist to generate a dotlrn service in /var/www/dotlrn for debian etch.

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5: Re: First in a series of developments: a script that creates a debian package from an openacs package (response to 4)
Posted by Jim Lynch on 02/09/07 08:11 PM
The concept I had in mind was a little different... what I want to do is install the openacs packages once, and have a script that builds multiple services from the installed packages. I'm not sure how the other script works; all I could tell from a first reading is it does prep work and calls dpkg-deb to build the package. Also I think that script packages the entire tarball, not individual apms. I'm not saying a collaboration is not possible, but I am saying it will take some thought and planning.