Can't create .deb files with jdeb on windows

[danielburrell]

I took at look at the "simple-jdeb" tests and created a fresh project (java playframework) based on these but I can't seem to execute the debian:package-bin without running into issues on windows.
Stack trace here: https://github.com/danielburrell/jdebtest/blob/master/stacktrace.txt
Example 'Bug Project' demonstrating the issue here: https://github.com/danielburrell/jdebtest

[muuki88]

Thanks a lot for trying out the 1.0.0-M1 and providing a detailed error description.
The problem seems to be that the jdeb packaging depends on the debianExplodedPackage task, which uses some commanline tools like chmod.

[danielburrell]

Thanks for uncovering the cause so quickly.
To clarify then, this is an issue with the way that jdeb has been wrapped up for use in sbt-native-packager? Or does the issue sit with jdeb itself? I ask because I've got a project (maven, non-playframework) that generates a .deb package on windows using the jdeb maven plugin, so I'm just wondering what the difference is, must be either usage or wrapping right?

[muuki88]

This is purely a sbt-native-packager problem. You may workaround this by overriding the tasks that fail. In this case you could try

debianExplodedPackage in Debian := (target in Debian).value

No guarantee that this will work. I'm also happy to merge a pull request which removes the debianExplodedPackage dependency (if possible) inside the JDebPackagin

[danielburrell]

Just as an update, I tried this, but further into execution (now on the debian:debianMd5sumsFile) I get the following stack trace

https://gist.github.com/danielburrell/90066ae8f8357a835e3d

Separately I tried suppressing the debian:debianMd5sumsFile task with
debianMd5sumsFile in Debian := (target in Debian).value
but activator was unable to parse it on reload.

[muuki88]

Okay. I found the root of this issue. The FileUtil.chmod method starts a process calling chmod, which obviously doesn't work on windows. I will detangle this