FYI, please look into "fpm" - package manager that build packages for deb, rpm - etc... https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
-----Original Message----- From: Wido den Hollander [mailto:w...@widodh.nl] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 2:08 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Ubuntu/Debian packaging progress On 01/09/2013 06:14 PM, Rajesh Battala wrote: > +1 . > @Wido, would like to know whether the same process works for rpm based > distros? > For 4.0 we had supported CentOS6.3 and Rhel6.3 and packing is done using waf. > waf is going to deprecated right? How we are going to support for packing > for rpm based distros. > Yes. Hugo is working on the RPM packaging (see some commits in master), but we keep in contact to keep it synced. RPM and DEB packaging share a lot of things, so we'll make sure that both packages are very much alike. Wido > Thanks > Rajesh Battala > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wido den Hollander [mailto:w...@widodh.nl] > Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 3:34 PM > To: <cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org> > Subject: Ubuntu/Debian packaging progress > > Hi all, > > I was contacted by Noa Resare from Spotify (you might have seen him on the > mailinglist) regarding the Ubuntu and Debian packaging progress. > > He volunteered to help with fixing this packaging the right way, but we > stumbled upon the problem that he doesn't have commit rights, this prevented > us from working in the "packaging" branch. > > After a Skype conversation yesterday we decided to fork the CloudStack repo > on Github[0] and work there. > > I know it's preferred that development stays at the ASF repo, but it would > mean that Noa would have to sent everything in patches to me and I'd have to > apply them. > > With this e-mail I want to let people know that we are working on > CLOUDSTACK-756 [1] on that Github repo. > > Afterwards we'll rebase and merge everything into master so that we have new > and shiny packages for the 4.1 release without WAF. > > I'll make sure we'll keep Hugo in the loop since he's doing the RPM packaging > which shares a lot with the DEB packaging. > > Questions or remarks? > > Wido > > > [0]: > https://github.com/noaresare/incubator-cloudstack/commits/packaging > [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-765 >
