Set up a way to distribute binaries.

[beorn7]

Just the static binaries (Go rules!), or even deb, rpm, ...

And not only for the Prometheus server, but all relevant repos (pushgateway, promdash...)

[beorn7]

Fedora and Debian people are already working on RPMs and DEBs, respectively.

We might still want to provide the statically compiled binaries for a number of architectures Go supports.

[danieldreier]

Any progress on this? I can't find Debian packages anywhere, and puppetizing the install is needlessly awkward without system packages. I can help build packages if necessary but don't want to duplicate the work of others.

[beorn7]

We went into the habit of attaching binaries to GitHub releases.

Debian packages are still in the work by @TheTincho . Not sure how close he is to officially release them.

[TheTincho]

On 18/06/15 11:34, Björn Rabenstein wrote:

We went into the habit of attaching binaries to GitHub releases.

Debian packages are still in the work by @TheTincho
https://github.com/TheTincho . Not sure how close he is to officially
release them.

Sorry about this guys, I have had very little spare time to dedicate to
this in the last few months. And to make things worse, every time I can
go back to work into this, I notice there is one (or a few) new
versions, with some new dependencies.. I am actually farther from
finishing now than a month ago :-)

Martín Ferrari (Tincho)

[fabxc]

To be honest, I don't think Prometheus's current speed of development aligns well with Debian's slow moving packages. Having proper custom packages for our releases would be nice, but official ones are probably only feasible in a few months.
By then the whole situation might be easier as well since Go 1.5 will allow shared libraries.

I'm very grateful for your effort but I don't want you to sink your personal resources into something that might be pre-mature.
Most people would be very happy about downloadable Debian packages, though :)

[brian-brazil]

I'm working on debs now, I should have something in the next few days,

[danieldreier]

@brian-brazil that's awesome! Looking forward to it.

[brian-brazil]

I've got working node_exporter debs for x86_64 and i386. They need some cleanup, but should make it easy to do the rest.

[msiebuhr]

Is the packaging-work available on a branch somewhere.

I've hacked a bit on init-files &c, but if someone have it around, it would be nice just to copy.

[brian-brazil]

Don't we have this now for our Go releases?

[TheTincho]

FWIW, prometheus, prometheus_cli, node_exporter, and push_gateway are all present in Debian at their current versions.

[SuperQ]

I was wondering what I can do to help add a few more of the common exporters like mysqld, haproxy, blackbox, etc.

I also think we should setup a PPA0 so we can make backported packages for current releases, given the main release cycle for Debian and Ubuntu LTS releases (commonly used for servers) is 2 years.

[fabxc]

We now have a download page. Thanks @grobie.

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