Possible to create Debian/Ubuntu packages?

[jaddison]

I'm not sure how to go about it, but this seems like a really useful addition to standard package repositories. RedHat, etc. too.

Here's some info on Ubuntu/Debian: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages

[ggtakec]

Hi, jaddison

Yes, we want to support debian package, but we need to solve about license for OpenSSL.
(see: https://code.google.com/p/s3fs/issues/detail?id=109)
But I will retry to work for this in a month....
Please wait for it.

[ggtakec]

I added new branch "cryptlibs" for this and googlecode(issue 109) issue.
It supports another crypt libraries for building s3fs, so you can make s3fs binary without openssl codes.
So I will talk about this branch for debian package in GoogleCode issue 109(https://code.google.com/p/s3fs/issues/detail?id=109).
And I'll report to here the result about that discussion, please wait for a while.
Regards,

[ggtakec]

I merged "cryptlibs" branch to master branch.
Then we can build s3fs with NSS or GnuTLS library instead of OpenSSL.
I hope this change makes us build debian package without OpenSSL license.

[jollyroger]

@ggtakec , thank you for your hard work!

I'm andriysenkovych from conversation on googlecode. I've done proper packaging for s3fs here: https://github.com/jollyroger/s3fs-fuse/tree/debian. I'm going to ask my sponsor to upload the package to Debian archive once I'll get some points clear.

Copyright

Currently file debian/copyright in my branch is mostly stub. I've found some old copyright file and converted to what it is now. Please check the copyright information and send me your thoughts if anything's wrong.

Version

In order to make s3fs acceptable by Debian, i have linked it against GnuTLS, but these changes do not belong to any released version. As you could see, I used a fake tag name v1.78-pre as a workaround for building packages. Could you please make some minor release so I could base my work on this tagged version?

Binary packages

I've uploaded a bunch of binary packages for i386/amd64 as well as source package for different Debian/Ubuntu flavours here (linked against gnutls): http://deinformer.alwaysdata.net/s3fs-fuse/ . Feel free to try them. I have signed those with my GPG key to be sure they're ok (fingerprint: DD25 AD8B 15D0 124B 2F31 BF52 C65D D54C A08F 82C0)

[ggtakec]

Hi, jollyroger
Thanks for your help.
If you can, I'm sorry please wait a while....because I want to organize some Issue(about SSEC).

[jollyroger]

@ggtakec, hi. My pleasure. I can wait for as long as you need. Meanwhile it would be helpful to clarify copyright notes I mentioned in the previous comment.

[geekpete]

Would be great to start with NSS/GnuTLS packages first then deal with openssl later.

Is there an opensource build service (like travis-ci) that might be able to then autogenerate these debian files for each major release and current master or nightlies?

Once the packages are auto building, then we just need somewhere to post the binaries to host a package repository.

Then people would just need to add the repo and apt-get install the finished packages and dependencies would drag down other requires packages and libraries.

A much better end user experience for getting up and running quickly with minimal effort/hassle.

[jollyroger]

@geekpete, they are not generated and they will require check and modification from time to time. But this is what is called maintainership. In most cases Debian-related files won't change between releases (except debian/changelog).

I've shared preview packages on the internet (see my previous message). I keep Debian-related changes in a separate branch (mentioned above as well). I'm going to add packages to Debian archive so people would just need to apt-get install. This also means I'm willing to support packages distributed by Debian. I'm just waiting for @ggtakec to give me a green light after new version is released to upload packages to Debian.

As for automatic builds: there's a tool called git-buildpackage that simplifies maintaining such project repository with separate Debian branch. There's a workflow that can be automated to prouce continiously built packages as well as maintaining a repo. This is already on my list.

[ggtakec]

Hi, jollyroger

I’m sorry for replying delay.

Today, I updated master branch about supporting SSE-C and fixed configure.ac, and cleanup codes.
And made new tag “Pre-v1.78” for your request.

I answer your comment following:

• Copyright
  It seems like no problem for me.
• Version
  I made new tag which included codes for compiling s3fs with gnutls.
• Binary packages
  It seems like good.

Please check those and if you have a question or a request, please let me know.
Thanks in advance for your help.

[jollyroger]

@ggtakec, thank you.

I'm sorry for misunderstanding. I used version v1.78-pre since I'm not in a position to publish/tag new release for s3fs-fuse. I expected that I'll wait for an actual 1.78 release and package it for Debian.

For now I'll package it for Debian but will wait for the real 1.78 release from you.

Also, I've seen copyright notes were added to some files. Thank you.

[ggtakec]

Hi, jollyroger

Thanks for your comment.
I will work to update v1.78, please wait for a while.

Regards,

[jollyroger]

Ok, thank you!

[ggtakec]

Hi, jollyroger

I uploaded new release(made tag) v1.78.
Please check it, and if you find something wrong thing, please let me know.

Thanks in advance for your great help.

[michalmedvecky]

Quick hack for building from source to debian package:

mkdir /tmp/installdir
make install DESTDIR=/tmp/installdir
apt-get install ruby ruby-dev
gem install fpm
fpm -s dir -t deb -n s3fs-fuse -v MYOWNVERSIONNUMBER -C /tmp/installdir -p s3fs-fuse_VERSION_ARCH.deb

Replace MYOWNVERSIONNUMBER with the version number you love. Do not touch VERSION and ARCH as they are FPM params.

[jollyroger]

Hi, @ggtakec . Glad to tell you a sponsor to upload the package into Debian archive was found (at last!). It seems the last tagged release was 1.79, but there was some important bufixing afterwards. May I ask you to make another tagged release so we could start with it?

Thank you.

[jollyroger]

Hi @ggtakec and everyone. I've created a snapshot tag in my own repo and thanks to Mattia Rizzolo and our sponsor Gianfranco Costamagna we were able to push the package into Debian's NEW queue(https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/s3fs-fuse_1.79+git90-g8f11507-1.html) . Awaiting for the package to appear in the Debian archive.

We'll upload all subsequent releases based on tag information in this repository so please do create the tag whent it's necessary and we'll do our job.

Thank you everyone for your work and for your interest in Debian!

[ggtakec]

@jollyroger
I appreciate your kindness and Mattia Rizzolo, Gianfranco Costamagna.
I'm glad s3fs-fuse is distributed as a debian package.

Now I'm modifying s3fs-fuse for fixing a issue.
After the change has been completed, I will to make a new tag.

I couldn't have done it without you.
Thank you very much!!!

[jollyroger]

Today s3fs was accepted into Debian Archive. Yay! From now on it will be available for all Debian users. Waiting for the new release from you 👍

Meanwhile we moved to Debian git hosting to work on packaging ( https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/s3fs-fuse.git) Feel free to contact if any action is required from our side.

Thank you!

[ggtakec]

I'm so excited about accepting debian archive!
Your help was much appreciated.
We could not have done it without you.

I'll work so as to be useful tool s3fs in the future.

Thank you very much for your great help.