Re: Creating a deb for a Java based project, and saying hi to the mailing list
Hi,
If your product is targeting Debian as a distribution platform than it
might be worth it to do the normal (full) debian packaging and have your
package in the official distribution.
If you just need to install the app to use it develop/test it locally
and never plan to distributed as an official deb, than jdeb is enough.
You will get a package that installs and with all the scripts you will
need to install it.
Building an official package out of that will be easier, since you will
have a lot of meta-data allready available. Dependinng on how many
external dependencies you have having an deb package can be a daunting
task, but having all dependencies packaged is part of Debian's awesomness.
Thanks,
On 05.10.2016 12:57, David Myers wrote:
> @Thorsten.
>
> OK I didn't realise there was 'more' to the .deb and .dsc stuff... I'm
> sure I mentioned that I'm a newbie to packaging 😉 (scratches head).
>
> @Emmanueal
>
> The team already has a gradle.build for windows and OSX, so I don't need
> to worry about those.
>
> The truth is that the gradle.build is actually installing to a virtual
> machine (vagrant). The rpms are just... well... RPMs hence RedHat /
> CentOS centric.
>
> It just seemed a bit crazy to have a VM on my debian jessy box that ran
> CentOS, so as I could build a Vagrant VM inside of that... just too many
> levels of abstraction for my head to get around !
>
> David.
>
> ps. I do hope I'm not too 'light hearted' in my conversation, I'm a
> great believer in 'work being fun / interesting', probably because
> havind worked in the NHS in the UK you don't do it for the money ;)
>
> D
>
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de
> <mailto:t.glaser@tarent.de>> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
>
> > I'd suggest that you get a look at jdeb [1] too, you may find this path
> > easier. It allows you to generate a .deb file directly from the project
>
> But do note that a .deb file is *not* a Debian package,
> merely a binary in a format convenient to install on an
> operating system that uses dpkg.
>
> A Debian package is a .dsc file plus everything that one
> references (origtgz, debian-specific build instructions),
> plus its Build-Depends, which also must come from Debian
> packages.
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
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