[Koha-devel] Building Koha Debian packages in Docker

[Chris Cormack]

More than just the tests. It also makes sure all the dependencies are packaged too. That way you can't build a package you can't install (because one of its depencies isn't packaged)

Chris 

On 26 November 2018 8:19:36 PM NZDT, David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> wrote:
>Thanks for sharing that, Tomas. I thought that you’d already done some
>work on this, but it wasn’t jumping out at me the other day. Where’s it
>in your gitlab? Is it the koha-dpkg-docker repository?
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>I’m curious though why one would use pbuilder in Docker. Is it so that
>you can use the base.tgz files to store the koha-perldeps? That could
>be convenient.
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>I’m curious why we have every Koha Perl dependency in the build
>dependencies section. Is it for the sake of the tests? Surely Koha’s
>“build” dependencies would be pretty low. Just whatever is needed by
>rewrite-Config.PL really? But I suppose the tests would have a lot of
>dependencies, which could be painful to enumerate separately.  
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>David Cook
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>From: Tomas Cohen Arazi [mailto:tomascohen at gmail.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, 22 November 2018 8:38 PM
>To: David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>
>Cc: koha-devel <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
>Subject: Re: Building Koha Debian packages in Docker
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>David, try this
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>https://hub.docker.com/r/koha/koha-dpkg/
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>I basically maintain the base.tgz files outside of it. It works nicely.
>The source code is on my gitlab. The plan was to automate the packages
>building and eventually set a pipeline for also testing the install
>process of the results.
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>El 22 nov. 2018 04:59, "David Cook" <dcook at prosentient.com.au
><mailto:dcook at prosentient.com.au> > escribió:
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>Hi folks,
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>I was wondering if anyone had a Docker image for building Koha Debian
>packages. I scouted around a bit and found this image from Jonathan
>https://gitlab.com/joubu/koha-dpkg-docker but nothing else. 
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>So I’ve put together my own project which you can find here:
>https://gitlab.com/minusdavid/koha-deb-builder-docker
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>The “build.sh” script is still rough around the edges, but it all
>works. Basically you build the Docker image, dump a tarball into
>“input” (generated using git archive with a properly formatted prefix
>and filename), run a container, run the build.sh script, and then when
>the process is done you should have some Debian packages in your
>“output” directory which is shared with your host computer. 
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>Happy to accept pull requests or talk about it in general. The Docker
>image is pretty heavy, but that’s because the Debian packaging tools
>are heavy.
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>The build process is also a bit long because it has to install all the
>“build dependencies”, although I think we could tweak the
>debian/control file so that we don’t have to install everything just to
>build the packages. 
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>Also I couldn’t get the tests to complete successfully on the first go
>so I’ve turned them off for now. Fixing the image or the tests so that
>they can run would be cool. 
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>Anyway, just thought I’d share that with everyone. 
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>David Cook
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>Systems Librarian
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>Prosentient Systems
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>72/330 Wattle St
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>Ultimo, NSW 2007
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>Australia
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>Office: 02 9212 0899
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>Direct: 02 8005 0595
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