Rethinking Package Building at Jimdo

Building Debian packages isn’t always fun. In fact, it can be a pain from time to time. In this presentation, Mathias talks about the challenges of package building at Jimdo and what it means to create a build system that everybody can use.

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1. Rethinking Package Building at Jimdo 1
2. Hello I'm Mathias Lafeldt. 2
3. I work at Jimdo 3
4. Building Debian packages isn't (always) fun 4
5. The Past 5
6. buildhost02 $ ssh buildhost02.jimdo.office $ sudo su buildmaster $ cd ~/builds $ ... do something to build package ... $ ~/scripts/regenerate_deb_repo.sh 6
7. But... Who built the package? How was it built? Why? 7
8. buildhost02 8
9. Milestone "Packaging 2.0" May 2014 9
10. Package builds Automated Documented Repeatable 10
11. A build system that anybody may use 11
12. Rebuild and redeploy all packages 12
13. Languages PHP Python Ruby Go (whatever upstream uses) 13
14. Build instructions debian/rules Makefile script.sh recipe.rb ... 14
15. The Present 15
16. Common interface $ make build publish or $ rake build publish 16
17. Old-school Makefile build: dpkg-buildpackage publish: build rsync ../*.deb $(PUBLISH_DIR) $ make build publish PUBLISH_DIR=/some/path 17
18. Rake 18
19. git-buildpackage # Rakefile require "buildtasks" BuildTasks::GitBuildpackage.define do name "periodicnoise" version "debian/1.1" source "https://github.com/Jimdo/periodicnoise" end 19
20. fpm-cookery # Rakefile require "buildtasks" BuildTasks::FPMCookery.define do recipe "recipe.rb" fpm_cookery_version "0.25.0" fpm_version "1.3.3" end 20
21. Rake tasks $ rake -T rake build # Build packages rake clean # Remove any temporary products rake clobber # Remove any generated file rake deps # Install build dependencies rake publish # Publish built packages $ rake build publish PUBLISH_DIR=/some/path 21
22. Demo 22
23. It's open source! $ gem install buildtasks github.com/Jimdo/buildtasks 23
24. Jimdo BuildBox1 1 Cool project name. Only used by two companies so far. 24
25. Package recipes + Isolated build env + Shell glue 25
26. $ cd buildbox/ $ vagrant up <distro> $ script/build <distro> <recipe> 26
27. $ cd buildbox/ $ script/bootstrap <distro> $ script/build <distro> <recipe> 27
28. Demo 28
29. ! buildhost02 ! September 2014 29
30. The Future 30
31. Turn shell glue into tool CI for package building Open source all the things 31
32. Thank you. mlafeldt.github.io @mlafeldt 32