Thank you Travis for the further clarification and thank you to everyone else who jumped on this thread, very much appreciated!<div><br></div><div>Cal<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Travis Cross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tc@travislists.com" target="_blank">tc@travislists.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Cal,<br>
<br>
It looks like others did rather well at answering these, so I'll just<br>
fill in some points.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On 2013-03-12 12:44, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote:<br>
> So today I went to go and create a Debian package for FreeSWITCH<br>
> using the existing packaging structure;<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://github.com/traviscross/freeswitch/blob/master/debian/" target="_blank">https://github.com/traviscross/freeswitch/blob/master/debian/</a><br>
> <a href="http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Debian_packages_buildscript" target="_blank">http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Debian_packages_buildscript</a><br>
><br>
> The first problem is that neither the helper or the debian/ dir have<br>
> been configured for compatibility with pbuilder, which makes it<br>
> untidy/non-sane to place this onto an automated production build<br>
> system (it also impacts security slightly due to untrusted external<br>
> code being ran outside of a chroot - but that's possibly an entirely<br>
> different debate).<br>
<br>
</div>It works fine with pbuilder and cowbuilder. If you take a look at the<br>
util.sh script, which is what I use to do the builds, you'll see I use<br>
cowbuilder there as well.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> The second problem is that the build resulted in nearly 100<br>
> different *.deb files This also poses somewhat of an annoyance in<br>
> automated deployment environments, for example saltstack, where the<br>
> configuration would have to list each individual FreeSWITCH<br>
> module.<br>
<br>
</div>You may not have noticed there are meta packages. If you install<br>
freeswitch-meta-all you'll get everything pulled in.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> It also feels very untidy. I understand that certain packages (such<br>
> as libfreeswitch, libfreeswitch-dev, freeswitch-server etc) should<br>
> be separated. But having a package for each module, the only use I<br>
> could think of for this, would be if the Debian package compiles<br>
> absolutely every module possible, and is then linked dynamically,<br>
> rather than compiled static. This means enabling/disabling modules<br>
> would be a matter of simply adding/removing a package.<br>
<br>
</div>Yes, that's exactly how it works.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> However I'm not entirely convinced if this is what it is<br>
> doing.. when compiling absolutely every package possible, FreeSWITCH<br>
> will usually fail to compile, due to collision etc.<br>
><br>
> So I have a couple of questions;<br>
><br>
> 1) Why are the modules separated into individual files?<br>
><br>
> 2) Are there any reasons to not be using pbuilder?<br>
><br>
> I have also CC'd Travis Cross who appears to a major contributor on<br>
> the Debian packaging code.<br>
<br>
</div>Please also be sure to read debian/README.{Debian,source}.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
--<br>
Travis Cross<br>
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