Re: bootstrap-vz debian package and some other stuff
Hi Tiago,
2015-05-12 18:29 GMT+02:00 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?
I serve mostly as a sponsor and review and upload Marcin's changes. I
would happily review and upload your changes as well and thank you for
taking care of packaging.
Cheers,
Balint
>
> 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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