packaging and archive management
Hello,
I have volunteered to do a bit of work for a small free software project
(https://buddycloud.org), packaging the different parts of their system.
This will initially be for debian but possibly for other distros as well
at some point.
What I am looking for is a program which can take each of the components
which make up buddycloud through the various steps of downloading a new
version, building it, packaging it, and adding the package file to an
archive. Ideally we want to be able to have more than one release - e.g.
a bleeding edge dev release and a stable release.
I have a few ideas about how to write my own program for this, using a
set of bash scripts, but I don't want to spend the effort doing this if
there is something good available already, so I wanted to know if there
are any suitable programs out there? These could be either be debian
tools, or something which can work with any distro. I read a bit about
'Dak', (Debian Archive Kit), but it says there is little or no
documentation for this. I'm also wondering if it would be too
debian-specific in the end.
Thanks for any help,
andy baxter
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