Debra: Make Debian packages with Ruby
Why?
Because I found the process of making Debian packages a little long winded. It does seem to work well for my use case: building binary packages of web applications on a CI server.
Also, I'm still learning the Debian packaging system so wouldn't recommend this for serious use, just your own packages.
How?
Install
$: sudo gem install debra
Create a Debfile in your projects directory
# Debfile
Debra do
# Specify the files to be included (just a Rake::FileList delegate)
files "etc/**/*"
# Specify your control file fields
# See http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html
control do
package "my-package"
version "0.1"
section "base"
priority "optional"
architecture "all"
depends "apache2, apache2-dev"
maintainer "My Name <[email protected]>"
description %q{My Pacakge Title
Extended description goes here ...
}
end
# Specify preinst, postinst, prerm, postrm files like this
postinst %q{#!/bin/bash
service apache restart
}
end
Build your file
$: sudo debra
Command line options
Usage: debra [options]
-h, --help Show this message
-v, --verbose Run verbosely
-f, --file file Load a specific Debfile
--version Show version
Examples
See the examples directory
License
(GPLv3)
Copyright (C) 2009 Matt Haynes
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