Python-deb

This project explore the possibility to convert a python project to .deb package in gitlab CI pipeline. The installation of the built package will be into a virtual environment.

TL;DR

Just put the .gitlab-ci.yaml a the root of your folder. And merge your working branch with a branch called develop. After that Gitlab do the rest.

Requirements

A python project which respect the following architecture :

+-- project_folder
|   +-- __init__.py
+-- setup.py
+-- MANIFEST.in

How does that work?

The Gitlab Ci use the selltom/python-deb:v4 docker image which contains some required tools:

1. setup2control

This homemade tool is just a parser/mapper from the setup.py file to the control file needed to build a debian package.

For example this setup.py file :

from setuptools import setup

debpack=['dependance1','dependance2','dependance3']

setup(
        name='my_awesome_python_project',
        version='0.0.1',
        author='John Doe',
        description='Sample project',
        long_description='This project is just a example used to explain the python-dev CI pipeline',
        url='',
        author_email='john@doe.com',
        license='Proprietary',
        packages=[],
        include_package_data=True,
        install_requires=[],
        zip_safe=False,
        entry_points={
                'console_scripts': ['myapp = my_awesome_python_project']
        }
)

will create the following control file:

Architecture: amd64
Essential: no
Priority: optional
Depends: dependance1 dependance2 dependance3
Package: my_awesome_python_project
Version: 0.0.1
Maintainer: John Doe
Description: This project is just a example used to explain the python-dev CI pipeline

2. yq

A command line tool to grep information from a yaml file.

References

• https://github.com/mikefarah/yq