As most of you who have met me at LUG meetings or at SCALE know, I am far from a technical expert, definitely technically dangerous, but not an expert. Well for the last 3-4 weeks I've taken on the task of getting our software up to a PPA and finally I think I got it done.
Back story: We write web based business software for SMB companies that is up on Soruceforge and we recently moved the development up to LaunchPad. All our software is written in JAVA and runs in Tomcat with Postgres and Apache too. What I found is that most of the instructions for creating deb packages and getting the package to a PPA assumes a lot; you're altering a project you don't control, you know how to compile a java app on the server from source, you are dependent on the OS, you know the guts of the OS, etc. I spent most of the time just trying to get a binary deb package going that would drop the war file and a couple of jar files into the right folders. That was easy enough, but when I went to create the PPA I found out that Ubuntu only accepts source deb packages. Well after a couple of days of searching, posting to the Ubuntu forum and even Reddit I found some instructions on the Ubuntu Wiki that showed how to create a source package from compiled code. Well LaunchPad accepted the package, so far so good. In the next couple of weeks I am going to get our other suite up to LaunchPad and PPA too for our first releases this year. Thanks for the time -- John Richmond IV ----------------- Randr, Inc. 951-369-3427 951-787-8683 Fax www.randrinc.com _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
