Re: bootstrap-vz debian package and some other stuff

[Tiago Ilieve <tiago.myhro@gmail.com>]

Hi Marcin and Balint,

I've been talking with Anders about updating the bootstrap-vz Debian
package. As you may have seen, we've switched the branching
strategy[1] (although missing a new tag to mark the last 0.9.5 release
- we are discussing this) and since the last big merge, most of the
patches made to build it are probably obsolete. He also suggested
using Sphinx to generate the man page automatically and I'm looking
for updating its long description to include keywords like KVM,
Vagrant, etc.

I'm interested in helping you guys in this task, although I'm not very
experienced in packaging. Can I start doing it and ask you guys to
take a look if everything is working as expected?

Regards,
Tiago.

[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2015/05/msg00003.html

On 30 July 2014 at 14:11, Marcin Kulisz <debian@kulisz.net> wrote:
>
> On 2014-07-30 15:57:08, Olivier Berger wrote:
> > Hi.
>
> Hello,
>
> > I've had a look at the package, and I'd like to suggest the following
> > change.
>
> Thx for this.
>
> > Since the VirtualBox guest additions is packaged in Debian, I would
> > suggest to add it as a suggested package, and to adjust the path of the
> > iso file :
> >
> > virtualbox-vagrant.manifest.yml would then contain :
> > ...
> > provider:
> >   name: virtualbox
> >   guest_additions: /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
> > ...
>
> Seams to be reasonable. Only small issue is that on master branch there are
> still json files when dev have been converted to yaml. So it should be more
> like this on master:
>
> /manifests/virtualbox-vagrant.manifest.json
> -               "guest_additions": "/root/images/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso"
> +               "guest_additions": "/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso"
> /manifests/virtualbox.manifest.json
> -               // "guest_additions": "/root/images/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso"
> +               "guest_additions": "/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso"
>
> I'll add virtualbox-guest-additions-iso as a suggest to the next build.
>
> > Btw, this leads me to a question : how do you intend to manage potential
> > patches vs upstream sources ?
>
> Patches against upstream are not problem from what I can tell. Anders is very
> capable and easy to talk to so I'm sure we'll be ok on this front.
>
> > Are you using any sort of Git package building tool ? If so, may I
> > suggest to document that somewhere in the debian/READMEs...
>
> I assume you grabbed package from mentors, correct?
> Below entry from d/control should answer your question:
> Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/cloud/bootstrap-vz.git
>
> Regarding suggestion to document this, well I could do it as I did it in my
> other package but I'm not sure if it will bring any additional value.
> Let me think about it.
>
> > Hope this helps.
>
> Thx a lot for voicing your opinion, all what helps to make this package better
> is highly appreciated.
>
> BTW no need for cc'ing me in I'm subscribed to the 'cloud list'
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