[Koha-devel] Building Koha Debian packages in Docker

Tue Nov 27 02:12:03 CET 2018

It's all here:

https://gitlab.com/tomascohen/koha-dpkg-docker

I thought it was documented on the Docker hub.

El lun., 26 nov. 2018 a las 22:10, David Cook (<dcook at prosentient.com.au>)
escribió:

> If you shared some of your ideas, Tomas, perhaps I could do some work on
> that one?
>
> With https://gitlab.com/minusdavid/koha-deb-builder-docker, I’m not using
> a chroot. I just use the debian:jessie parent image, install build tools,
> take the upstream tarball (generated via git archive), use dch to update
> the changelog, currently use apt-get -y build-dep koha to install the build
> dependencies, then run “debuild”. The slowest bit of the process is
> installing those build dependencies.
>
>
>
> (Full disclosure: I’m using DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck as I recall one of
> the tests causing a fatal error, and I put off analysing that until I had
> the build process nailed down in the docker. That’ll need revisiting.)
>
>
>
> David Cook
>
> Systems Librarian
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> Prosentient Systems
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> 72/330 Wattle St
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> Ultimo, NSW 2007
>
> Australia
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> Office: 02 9212 0899
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> *From:* Tomas Cohen Arazi [mailto:tomascohen at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 27 November 2018 11:57 AM
> *To:* David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>
> *Cc:* Chris Cormack <chrisc at catalyst.net.nz>; koha-devel <
> koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Koha-devel] Building Koha Debian packages in Docker
>
>
>
> If I had time to spend on the subject, I would look for ways to build
> Debian packages without the need to chroot. With that solved, it will be
> very easy to create those pipelines for testing the packages.
>
>
>
> El lun., 26 nov. 2018 a las 21:55, David Cook (<dcook at prosentient.com.au>)
> escribió:
>
> There’s certainly something to be said for “if it’s not broken, don’t fix
> it”. It certainly does work well enough.
>
>
>
> I seem to recall reading something years ago from Lars about some
> uncertainty on packaging full web applications, versus individual modules
> or DOTADIW programs, for Debian but I think that was about other details.
>
>
>
> I’m not really advocating for change. Really just asking questions about
> why things are done the way they’re done.
>
>
>
> David Cook
>
> Systems Librarian
>
> Prosentient Systems
>
> 72/330 Wattle St
>
> Ultimo, NSW 2007
>
> Australia
>
>
>
> Office: 02 9212 0899
>
> Direct: 02 8005 0595
>
>
>
> *From:* Chris Cormack [mailto:chrisc at catalyst.net.nz]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 27 November 2018 11:35 AM
> *To:* David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>;
> koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
> *Subject:* RE: [Koha-devel] Building Koha Debian packages in Docker
>
>
>
> If you like, I note it's been working fine for over 8 years now.
> And was packaged by 2 debian developers and a debian maintainer. I'd
> strongly resist changing it
>
> Chris
>
> On 27 November 2018 1:32:33 PM NZDT, David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>
> wrote:
>
> While I can see the utility of that usage, are there any examples of other
> projects doing that? I don’t think that I’ve seen that elsewhere, and it
> doesn’t seem like the Debian way of doing things.
>
>
>
> It seems to me that the Build-Depends should just be for build
> dependencies, and Depends should be for package dependencies. The lack of
> packaged dependencies could be caught in a different part of the pipeline.
> And when it is caught, then that dependency could be packaged, and the same
> packaged koha-common could be used. That seems to be a more standard way of
> handling the packaging process, no?
>
>
>
> David Cook
>
> Systems Librarian
>
> Prosentient Systems
>
> 72/330 Wattle St
>
> Ultimo, NSW 2007
>
> Australia
>
>
>
> Office: 02 9212 0899
>
> Direct: 02 8005 0595
>
>
>
> *From:* koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org [
> mailto:koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org
> <koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org>] *On Behalf Of *Chris
> Cormack
> *Sent:* Monday, 26 November 2018 6:51 PM
> *To:* koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
> *Cc:* 'koha-devel' <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Koha-devel] Building Koha Debian packages in Docker
>
>
>
> 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?
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> David Cook
>
> Systems Librarian
>
> Prosentient Systems
>
> 72/330 Wattle St
>
> Ultimo, NSW 2007
>
> Australia
>
>
>
> Office: 02 9212 0899
>
> Direct: 02 8005 0595
>
>
>
> *From:* Tomas Cohen Arazi [mailto:tomascohen at gmail.com
> <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
>
>
>
> David, try this
>
>
>
> https://hub.docker.com/r/koha/koha-dpkg/
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> El 22 nov. 2018 04:59, "David Cook" <dcook at prosentient.com.au> escribió:
>
> Hi folks,
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> So I’ve put together my own project which you can find here:
> https://gitlab.com/minusdavid/koha-deb-builder-docker
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Anyway, just thought I’d share that with everyone.
>
>
>
> David Cook
>
> Systems Librarian
>
> Prosentient Systems
>
> 72/330 Wattle St
>
> Ultimo, NSW 2007
>
> Australia
>
>
>
> Office: 02 9212 0899
>
> Direct: 02 8005 0595
>
>
>
>
>
>
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