[Distutils] [zc.buildout] buildout to .deb package

2009-02-17 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hello I am starting to work on a script to generate a .deb package out of a buildout. Anyone has done anything in this area already ? Or is interested in working on it with me ? Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN |

[Distutils] [ANN] stdeb 0.2.3 released

2009-02-17 Thread Andrew Straw
Hot on the heels of stdeb 0.2.2 comes 0.2.3. More fantastic features for this Python-package-to-debian-package automator, you ask? Only one, a --ignore-install-requires option added by Brett (last name unknown). More importantly, however, are a couple bugfixes from Brett and Zooko O'Whielacronx

Re: [Distutils] [zc.buildout] buildout to .deb package

2009-02-17 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Ok, I will check this approach, Do you deliver Zope within the buildout or do you have a separate RPM for Zope, then another RPM for each instance ? 2009/2/17 Jim Fulton j...@zope.com: We routinely use zc.sourcerelease to build RPMs. Jim On Feb 17, 2009, at 5:25 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

Re: [Distutils] [zc.buildout] buildout to .deb package

2009-02-17 Thread Philip Jenvey
On Feb 17, 2009, at 2:25 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: Hello I am starting to work on a script to generate a .deb package out of a buildout. Anyone has done anything in this area already ? Or is interested in working on it with me ? FYI Jeff Dairiki attempted a bdist_deb a few years ago:

Re: [Distutils] [zc.buildout] buildout to .deb package

2009-02-17 Thread Tarek Ziadé
2009/2/17 Philip Jenvey pjen...@underboss.org: On Feb 17, 2009, at 2:25 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: Hello I am starting to work on a script to generate a .deb package out of a buildout. Anyone has done anything in this area already ? Or is interested in working on it with me ? FYI Jeff

Re: [Distutils] [zc.buildout] buildout to .deb package

2009-02-17 Thread Tarek Ziadé
2009/2/17 Zooko O'Whielacronx zoo...@gmail.com: I use stdeb to build .deb's from Python source distributions. I'm not entirely sure what buildout does, but after letting this screencast play in the background while I work: http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/buildout , I think that I'm

Re: [Distutils] [zc.buildout] buildout to .deb package

2009-02-17 Thread Andrew Straw
Tarek Ziadé wrote: 2009/2/17 Zooko O'Whielacronx zoo...@gmail.com: I use stdeb to build .deb's from Python source distributions. I'm not entirely sure what buildout does, but after letting this screencast play in the background while I work: http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/buildout , I think

Re: [Distutils] [zc.buildout] buildout to .deb package

2009-02-17 Thread Tarek Ziadé
2009/2/18 Andrew Straw straw...@astraw.com: There is no need to email me separately. I usually lurk here... ok :) If you're trying to do package management on Debian, I'd suggest using the Debian system rather than trying to invent your own. (I am reading between the lines here by noting

Re: [Distutils] [zc.buildout] buildout to .deb package

2009-02-17 Thread Andrew Straw
Tarek Ziadé wrote: But note that being able to build .deb packages from another system than debian could be a great feature when doable. Yes, that's true. To produce nice .debs, though you'd have to re-implement a lot of the Debian packaging tools. Probably it's easier just to run a chroot

Re: [Distutils] [zc.buildout] buildout to .deb package

2009-02-17 Thread Tarek Ziadé
2009/2/18 zooko zo...@zooko.com: On Feb 17, 2009, at 15:27 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: Same remark as bdist_deb : it looks nice to create .deb files for single packages. The way that I currently use it is that I run stdeb on each package which is required, and make them all available in an apt