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I'll have a crack at auto-converting all gems into debian packages if someone can point me to the "this is what debian packages need to look like" spec. Or the

by drnic 18y ago

I'll have a crack at auto-converting all gems into debian packages if someone can point me to the "this is what debian packages need to look like" spec. Or the CPAN module->debian package converter that I recently heard about @ OSDC conference. Email drnicwilliams at gmail.com

e1ven 18y ago
Sounds like a great project. You might want to ping the debian team, and see where things currently stand; If they don't want to accept your auto-packaged debs, you could set up your own repository, and auto-push them there.. That way people could pull in the Ruby Gems from there on a regular basis, as soon as they are auto-updated, without waiting for them to be released officially. Debian team policy: http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html How to create packages: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-debpkg.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-debpkg.htm... http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/ http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Buil... http://quietsche-entchen.de/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/CreatingDebianPackages http://quietsche-entchen.de/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/CreatingDebianP... They're basically just tarballs with a pre and postscript, questions via debconf, and the dependencies mapped out in a manifest.
- drnic 18y ago
  Thx for the links. I've pinged the pkg-ruby-extras mailing list for help too.
  - e1ven 18y ago
    Just for the sake of anyone in the future who is reading this thread, two more links- http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org http://github.com/fidothe/dpkg-tools/tree/master http://github.com/fidothe/dpkg-tools/tree/master
  - nailer 18y ago
    Just wanted to say thanks. Similar issues years ago were sorted by cpam2rpm years and the Java Packaging Project. I'd love to have proper packages for Gems.

by drnic 18y ago

e1ven 18y ago

Sounds like a great project. You might want to ping the debian team, and see where things currently stand; If they don't want to accept your auto-packaged debs, you could set up your own repository, and auto-push them there.. That way people could pull in the Ruby Gems from there on a regular basis, as soon as they are auto-updated, without waiting for them to be released officially. Debian team policy: http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html How to create packages: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-debpkg.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-debpkg.htm... http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/ http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Buil... http://quietsche-entchen.de/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/CreatingDebianPackages http://quietsche-entchen.de/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/CreatingDebianP... They're basically just tarballs with a pre and postscript, questions via debconf, and the dependencies mapped out in a manifest.

drnic 18y ago
Thx for the links. I've pinged the pkg-ruby-extras mailing list for help too.
- e1ven 18y ago
  Just for the sake of anyone in the future who is reading this thread, two more links- http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org http://github.com/fidothe/dpkg-tools/tree/master http://github.com/fidothe/dpkg-tools/tree/master
- nailer 18y ago
  Just wanted to say thanks. Similar issues years ago were sorted by cpam2rpm years and the Java Packaging Project. I'd love to have proper packages for Gems.