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Not sure whenever this is a good service or not (proper Debian packaging is 10% writing scripts 90% reading and conforming to policies), but I believe it would
by drdaeman 13y ago
Not sure whenever this is a good service or not (proper Debian packaging is 10% writing scripts 90% reading and conforming to policies), but I believe it would be really better if it'd be able to produce and maintain "debian" branch and tags for pbuilder/git-buildpackage, so standard package building practices would apply.
- derefr 13y agoPkgr (and fpm, the program it uses) is not for shipping a package that people can install and depend upon as part of their own OS distribution. It's for using apt-get as your orchestration system, instead of puppet/chef/etc. You package your application and its dependencies as .debs, create an apt-mirror containing those debs, add that apt repo to your deploy-targets' sources.list.d's, "apt-get install yourcorp-system-release", and relax.
- regularfry 13y agoWe just use apt-get as the deployment and versioning mechanism, driven from puppet. This works well.
- infinity0 13y agoThey should add a disclaimer that they are not a replacement for proper Debian packaging then. Lots of whiny people complain about the complexity of Debian packaging when really they don't understand the requirements for integrating nicely with every other installed program or potentially-installable program.