make a debian package .deb for distribution

Created by: Sylvain303

I propose that the debian package building should be progressive.

It's a good idea to first keep using nodejs internally in the package. I mean having a specific version of nodejs installed with ucoin. So nodejs compatibility will be handled in the package.

For maintaining the package building I propose some options, to be discussed here in French first:

https://annuel.framapad.org/p/ucoin_debian_package_building

Created by: Sylvain303

OK. I sum-up the reflexion:

I started a depot which will holds the package source separately:

https://github.com/Sylvain303/ucoin-debian-package

The idea is to process by step. I'll first build a working debian package .deb, which will be look like to what is done by install.sh

installing a local version of nodejs
installing ucoin
compiling local architecture dependent code. (amd64 and armv7)

This will necessary includes some alteration to install.sh and ucoind.sh wrapper. Which is handled by debian's packaging tool-set.

A more debian compliant package will be build next.

So lets this ticket open, I will post update in it. If issues happen on the package post on the dedicated repository => https://github.com/Sylvain303/ucoin-debian-package/issues

Created by: Sylvain303

Happy new year guys.

I drafted some changes in install.sh and added a dummy Makefile.

The modifications in install.sh is for code reuse, and to be DRY (Dont Repeat Yourself), I splited install_node_js() from install_ucoin_from_git() and added a command line switch --call-only for the script.

I use it in the draft Makefile:

node/bin/node:
    ${INSTALL_UCOIN} --call-only install_node_js ${NODEJS_VER} .

Which purpose is to load the original script but only execute the newly available install_node_js() function, with the 2 arguments.

So my questions are related to the way you'd like to work with the debian package building script:

Do I pull-request the inclusion of install.sh for your own usage too?
Or, Should I split install.sh into common reusable shell helper functions?
Do you want I also pull-request the Makefile? It means I will probably merge some behavior of install.sh into Makefile rules, to be DRY compliant, and also because it's really a Makefile jobs…

may be pipe install.sh | bash would become:

git clone ucoin
make install-local-user

Or some mixed solution…

Tell me, as I can also maintains debian.patches on the packet side which will be applied by debhelpers when the package is build.

I'll push a working version on the https://github.com/Sylvain303/ucoin-debian-package as soon as I've the first build that works…

Sylvain.

Created by: Sylvain303

News from the .deb: It can now build partially with debian tools, the Makefile is created by the package source itself, could be accomplished some other way. The result of the build is:

nodejs downloaded and extracted
npm install has built all the libs

now it needs to be installed somewhere. I proposed to first use /home/ucoin/.ucoin similarly to what is done by install.sh. Needs to be changed in the future to fit with debian's policy.

I'm reading more deeply install.sh and its tight link to ucoin.sh which proposes a shell function which is the shell wrapper to nodejs bin/ucoind (javascript)

I'm going to rewrite what I need to both script by strictly keeping existing behavior. I mean, I'm gonna change both ucoin.sh and the ucoind function and install.sh to be usable by my installer, but still providing the same call syntax.

You will see the result in the pull-request.

It is OK if you change ucoind.sh and install.sh files by keeping the exact same syntax + exact same behavior. You can also include the Makefile with the same condition.

Will you push soon to your github repo so I can have a preview of these files?

Created by: Sylvain303

Modified install.sh and Makefile are available here, but not yet achieving the goals mentioned above.

https://github.com/Sylvain303/ucoin/blob/sylvain/Makefile

It is not at all portable yet, assuming my ucoin clone to be in $HOME/ucoin.

I faced binary lib dependencies complain by the debhelper dh_shlibdeps, which is probably because of the build is done by a local nodejs version and not by a debian's one. I stopped to progress here and the installer didn't go forward.

I'm also still in progress to provide script helpers, but I started to use a released tarball and I should now move to a git helper: like described here

I didn't push package draft because it's mostly broken and don't live well in nodejs multiple version environment…

I have to admit I do not understand at all the Makefile

However about ucoin.sh & install.sh, it seems OK.

Quite a long time since this comment, now we have .deb packaging for all our new releases of Duniter (the new name to come for uCoin).

The install.sh script will be used for compilation install of the server instead, from now on. It already works for Debian 6 installation.

I don't know if you still want to work on this script, so I close the issue. Feel free to reopen it.

make a debian package .deb for distribution

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