Re: [smartos-discuss] DIY pkgsrc?

[Robert Fisher]

So simple! Thanks Jonathan and Jorge.


Rob

On 1 May 2018 at 11:49, Jonathan Perkin  wrote:

> * On 2018-05-01 at 11:43 BST, Robert Fisher wrote:
>
> > I build pkgin (pkgsrc?) packages of certain tools, customized to my own
> > needs. To get them on my hosts I stick them in Manta, and
> config-management
> > downloads them and installs them from the local filesystem. This has
> always
> > seemed crude and clumsy, but works.
> >
> > Now I'm looking at deploying my own code via pkgin packages, but I can't
> > see an efficient way to do it. My stick-it-in-Manta approach can't cut it
> > with frequently rebuilt packages: I need a proper repo. If I used, say,
> > ubuntu, my CI pipeline would drop the package in Artifactory or Gemfury
> or
> > whatever, and it would be pulled down from there by the proper packaging
> > tools on the next config-management run.
> >
> > How would I (could I, even?) implement a similar approach with pkgin on
> > SmartOS? I haven't been able to find any documentation on running
> > additional private repos, which is starting to make me wonder if it's
> even
> > possible.
> >
> > Before I start re-inventing wheels, is there any accepted best-practice I
> > should begin with?
> 
> I wrote a brief guide to creating local packages a while back here:
> 
> https://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/creating-local-smartos-packages.html
> 
> That's for generating packages outside of a pkgsrc environment and
> making them available via HTTP.
> 
> If you prefer to build them using pkgsrc, then you can create a
> separate pkgsrc tree under pkgsrc/whatever/pkgname and link to the
> pkgsrc infrastructure from there, as we do with e.g. pkgsrc-joyent:
> 
> https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc-joyent
> 
> If I've missed anything out please let me know, I'd like to migrate
> this to a better doc on the wiki.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com
> 



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Re: [smartos-discuss] DIY pkgsrc?

[Jonathan Perkin]

* On 2018-05-01 at 11:43 BST, Robert Fisher wrote:

> I build pkgin (pkgsrc?) packages of certain tools, customized to my own
> needs. To get them on my hosts I stick them in Manta, and config-management
> downloads them and installs them from the local filesystem. This has always
> seemed crude and clumsy, but works.
> 
> Now I'm looking at deploying my own code via pkgin packages, but I can't
> see an efficient way to do it. My stick-it-in-Manta approach can't cut it
> with frequently rebuilt packages: I need a proper repo. If I used, say,
> ubuntu, my CI pipeline would drop the package in Artifactory or Gemfury or
> whatever, and it would be pulled down from there by the proper packaging
> tools on the next config-management run.
> 
> How would I (could I, even?) implement a similar approach with pkgin on
> SmartOS? I haven't been able to find any documentation on running
> additional private repos, which is starting to make me wonder if it's even
> possible.
> 
> Before I start re-inventing wheels, is there any accepted best-practice I
> should begin with?

I wrote a brief guide to creating local packages a while back here:

  https://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/creating-local-smartos-packages.html

That's for generating packages outside of a pkgsrc environment and
making them available via HTTP.

If you prefer to build them using pkgsrc, then you can create a
separate pkgsrc tree under pkgsrc/whatever/pkgname and link to the
pkgsrc infrastructure from there, as we do with e.g. pkgsrc-joyent:

  https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc-joyent

If I've missed anything out please let me know, I'd like to migrate
this to a better doc on the wiki.

Cheers,

-- 
Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com


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Re: [smartos-discuss] DIY pkgsrc?

[Jorge Schrauwen]

It’s possible, I run one for my own packages.
All the info should be here https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/wiki

(On mobile so can’t be more specific)

~ sjorge 

> On 1 May 2018, at 12:43, Robert Fisher  wrote:
> 
> I build pkgin (pkgsrc?) packages of certain tools, customized to my own 
> needs. To get them on my hosts I stick them in Manta, and config-management 
> downloads them and installs them from the local filesystem. This has always 
> seemed crude and clumsy, but works.
> 
> Now I'm looking at deploying my own code via pkgin packages, but I can't see 
> an efficient way to do it. My stick-it-in-Manta approach can't cut it with 
> frequently rebuilt packages: I need a proper repo. If I used, say, ubuntu, my 
> CI pipeline would drop the package in Artifactory or Gemfury or whatever, and 
> it would be pulled down from there by the proper packaging tools on the next 
> config-management run. 
> 
> How would I (could I, even?) implement a similar approach with pkgin on 
> SmartOS? I haven't been able to find any documentation on running additional 
> private repos, which is starting to make me wonder if it's even possible.
> 
> Before I start re-inventing wheels, is there any accepted best-practice I 
> should begin with? 
> 
> 
> Rob
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[smartos-discuss] DIY pkgsrc?

[Robert Fisher]

I build pkgin (pkgsrc?) packages of certain tools, customized to my own
needs. To get them on my hosts I stick them in Manta, and config-management
downloads them and installs them from the local filesystem. This has always
seemed crude and clumsy, but works.

Now I'm looking at deploying my own code via pkgin packages, but I can't
see an efficient way to do it. My stick-it-in-Manta approach can't cut it
with frequently rebuilt packages: I need a proper repo. If I used, say,
ubuntu, my CI pipeline would drop the package in Artifactory or Gemfury or
whatever, and it would be pulled down from there by the proper packaging
tools on the next config-management run.

How would I (could I, even?) implement a similar approach with pkgin on
SmartOS? I haven't been able to find any documentation on running
additional private repos, which is starting to make me wonder if it's even
possible.

Before I start re-inventing wheels, is there any accepted best-practice I
should begin with?


Rob



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