Randall, You could consider stealing some of my scripting around pbuilder in order to build packages for squeeze, lucid, maverick, natty and oneiric for both 32-bit and 64-bit servers in one go. It's also quite possible to write a much better script. :)
https://github.com/cloudant/packages/blob/master/debian/build B. On 14 January 2012 15:04, Tim Kuijsten <[email protected]> wrote: > Very nice, just wanted to install on a new server but I see you don't > support the latest LTS. Are you planning to build packages for 10.04? > > Op 13-01-12 21:54, Randall Leeds schreef: > >> I've uploaded a version of CouchDB 1.1.1 to my personal package archive >> [1]. >> >> I would appreciate for anyone to take some time to test this. >> I plan to provide the same for 1.2 and other future releases. >> >> Relax. Using it is as simple as: >> $ apt add-repository ppa:randall-leeds/couchdb >> $ apt-get update >> $ apt-get install couchdb >> >> I've combined previous packaging efforts from Debian and Ubuntu and >> attempted to bring them into harmony[2] on my GitHub account using >> git-dpm[3]. I would like to facilitate sharing packaging and keeping >> CouchDB up to date on these and other .deb distributions and would >> appreciate feedback from the downstream packagers on whether or not >> I'm doing it right. >> >> Differences inherited from Debian: >> - Permissions on installed files are slightly more strict, being >> entirely unreadable outside the couchdb user/group. >> >> Differences inherited from Ubuntu: >> - couchdb and couchdb-bin are split packages. The former is >> architecture neutral. >> >> -Randall >> >> [1] https://launchpad.net/~randall-leeds/+archive/couchdb * >> [2] https://github.com/tilgovi/couchdb/tree/debian and >> https://github.com/tilgovi/couchdb/tree/ubuntu >> [3] http://git-dpm.alioth.debian.org/ >> >> * It is my full intention to faithfully produce a packaging of >> original release tarballs. The paranoid may check that the original >> source matches that of the official release. No changes outside >> packaging will ever be included in this archive and I will only ever >> upload packages for released versions of CouchDB. In short, help me >> make sure this is a great way to keep an up-to-date CouchDB.
