Hey guys, As an option, I've attached the debian packaging patch I've used for packaging Mesos for Ubuntu (Precise) to MESOS-74. It does not use a third party / unified packager, rather just the standard toolchain - A debian directory in the source tree with all the trimmings. Just run "debuild ..." at the top and, ideally, you're good to go.
Overall, in my experience it's hard to maintain packages for multiple platforms using a "meta-packager" scheme on a sizeable/multi-language project. It's usually easier to just go with the romans, whomever they may be at that particular juncture. Different systems have different policies for packages, how to split them up (libs, dev, language-specific bits), dealing with multi-architecture, python versions, etc. I've always ended up with *more* work trying to unify system packaging than just doing it once per platform. :) It might be worth considering it can be easier to find people experienced, interested and opinionated in platform-specific packaging, and the work tends to be low-hanging fruit for contributing to a project. In any case, hope the patch comes in handy. Cheers, /d On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Benjamin Hindman <[email protected]>wrote: > +1! > > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Vinod Kone <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey Jason and Tomas, > > > > Love it! We definitely like to include this in the mesos repo. Would you > > mind sending out the patch(es) via Apache ReviewBoard? That is our > > preferred way to review changes before committing them. > > > > P.S: Since mesos graduated, the new repo location is: > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/mesos.git > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Jason Dusek <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Dear List, > > > > > > I have been working on automated packaging for Mesos on Debian > > > and Ubuntu. > > > > > > https://github.com/solidsnack/mesos-deb-packaging/ > > > > > > Much thanks is due to Tomas Barton, who got the ball rolling on > > > this and put together much of the code in the repo above. > > > > > > The present collection of init scripts and build options is used > > > regularly for automated rollouts of Mesos at my firm, on Debian > > > and Ubuntu, in conjunction with tools using the Java API. We are > > > looking in to proper installation and setup of the Python > > > libraries. > > > > > > The `build_mesos' script is useful for those wishing to build > > > and release internal forks of Mesos, too. > > > > > > Support for RedHat/CentOS is important to us and is planned for > > > the near future. We'd like to see Mesos make its way in to the > > > repositories someday. What we have is a solid foundation and it > > > seems like integrating with mainline Mesos early is the best way > > > to make for a smooth transition in the future. > > > > > > Would it be alright to add this material to > > > > > > http://git.apache.org/incubator-mesos.git > > > > > > under a new directory, "packaging"? This tooling will eventually > > > grow to encompass Homebrew as well as RPMs so its probably just > > > as well to keep the name distro agnostic. > > > > > > -- > > > Jason Dusek > > > pgp // solidsnack // C1EBC57DC55144F35460C8DF1FD4C6C1FED18A2B > > > > > >
