[Freeswitch-users] Debian packaging - some questions

[Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]]

Oh damn that's a good point - well spotted

Cal

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Steven Ayre <steveayre at gmail.com> wrote:

> You may not have noticed there are meta packages.  If you install
>> freeswitch-meta-all you'll get everything pulled in.
>
>
> You can also build your own meta package that depends on all the packages
> required by your application. Then it's simply a case of:
> $ sudo apt-get install freeswitch-meta-companyname
>
> -Steve
>
>
>
> On 12 March 2013 15:28, Travis Cross <tc at travislists.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Cal,
>>
>> It looks like others did rather well at answering these, so I'll just
>> fill in some points.
>>
>> On 2013-03-12 12:44, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote:
>> > So today I went to go and create a Debian package for FreeSWITCH
>> > using the existing packaging structure;
>> >
>> > https://github.com/traviscross/freeswitch/blob/master/debian/
>> > http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Debian_packages_buildscript
>> >
>> > The first problem is that neither the helper or the debian/ dir have
>> > been configured for compatibility with pbuilder, which makes it
>> > untidy/non-sane to place this onto an automated production build
>> > system (it also impacts security slightly due to untrusted external
>> > code being ran outside of a chroot - but that's possibly an entirely
>> > different debate).
>>
>> It works fine with pbuilder and cowbuilder.  If you take a look at the
>> util.sh script, which is what I use to do the builds, you'll see I use
>> cowbuilder there as well.
>>
>> > The second problem is that the build resulted in nearly 100
>> > different *.deb files This also poses somewhat of an annoyance in
>> > automated deployment environments, for example saltstack, where the
>> > configuration would have to list each individual FreeSWITCH
>> > module.
>>
>> You may not have noticed there are meta packages.  If you install
>> freeswitch-meta-all you'll get everything pulled in.
>>
>> > It also feels very untidy. I understand that certain packages (such
>> > as libfreeswitch, libfreeswitch-dev, freeswitch-server etc) should
>> > be separated. But having a package for each module, the only use I
>> > could think of for this, would be if the Debian package compiles
>> > absolutely every module possible, and is then linked dynamically,
>> > rather than compiled static. This means enabling/disabling modules
>> > would be a matter of simply adding/removing a package.
>>
>> Yes, that's exactly how it works.
>>
>> > However I'm not entirely convinced if this is what it is
>> > doing.. when compiling absolutely every package possible, FreeSWITCH
>> > will usually fail to compile, due to collision etc.
>> >
>> > So I have a couple of questions;
>> >
>> > 1) Why are the modules separated into individual files?
>> >
>> > 2) Are there any reasons to not be using pbuilder?
>> >
>> > I have also CC'd Travis Cross who appears to a major contributor on
>> > the Debian packaging code.
>>
>> Please also be sure to read debian/README.{Debian,source}.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> --
>> Travis Cross
>>
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