Hi, I wrote the below a while ago but never hit send, sorry. You may also be interested in the Debian Cloud group (debian-cloud@), and they might be interested in this tool :-)
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 03:55:09PM -0400, Hubert Chathi wrote: > I've whipped up a quick script that uses Docker images to build Debian > packages. It's basically the same idea as pbuilder/cowbuilder (and was > inspired by them), but using Docker. > > It's in pretty rough shape still and there's a lot of stuff to do still > (and lots to learn about Docker and Ruby), but it should be functional > -- at least enough for other people to bang on it. > > http://www.uhoreg.ca/programming/debian/whalebuilder Thanks for sharing, I've given it a quick look and here are some suggestions. • don't use docker's base debian images - they're customised in ways that might make package builds 'impure'. I've got some makefiles and dockerfiles that one can use to build pristine/unmodified base images at <http://github.com/jmtd/debian-docker>. • don't install binary package dependencies in the build image by default (this might mask a missing build dependency bug) • I'd suggest adding --no-install-recommends to apt-get install calls, e.g. in Dockerfile.base.erb, to avoid masking a "missing-build-depends" bug in source packages (where it relies on a package pulled in from a recommendation of a package depended in build-essential) • parallel build support (passing DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS through) be nice • default release should be unstable/sid (since that's the most likely place people will be building packages for, normal package lifecycle) -- Jonathan Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150515071942.ga30...@chew.redmars.org
