Building Debian Packages

Bcfg2 Packaging

• Install packages necessary for building bcfg2
  apt-get build-dep bcfg2 bcfg2-server
  

or, if the available repositories do not have any version of bcfg2, try something like:

apt-get install cdbs docbook-xsl libxslt1.1 python-dev python2.4-dev sgml-base xml-core xsltproc fakeroot

• Untar the sources - or for bleeding edge, svn co https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/bcfg/trunk/bcfg2
• cd into the debian/ subdirectory
• Optional: if you want to have a special name for your own package, edit the first line of changelog: change eg. "(0.9.5.7-0.1)" to "(0.9.5.7-0.1myname)"
• run ./buildsys-select.sh <python version>
  This will setup the package to install python properly.
  <python version> is either:
  • 2.3 (for debian sarge),
  • 2.4 (for breezy, dapper, and nexenta <= alpha 6)
  • pycentral (for etch, feisty and edgy, gutsy, hardy).

• cd ..
• run "fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us"
• enjoy your freshly built packages

Python SSL Backport Packaging

As of Bcfg2 1.0, Bcfg2 has switched to the in-tree ssl module included with python 2.6. A backport exists for 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5. With this, M2Crypto is not needed, and tlslite is no longer included with bcfg2 sources. The ssl module can be found ​here. See Authentication? for details.

To build a package of the ssl backport for .deb based distributions that don't ship with python 2.6, you can follow these instructions, which use ​stdeb. Alternatively if you happen to have .deb packaging skills, it would be great to get policy-complaint .debs into the major deb-based distributions.

sudo aptitude install python-all-dev fakeroot
sudo easy_install stdeb
wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/ssl/ssl-1.14.tar.gz#md5=4e08aae0cd2c7388d1b4bbb7f374b14a
tar xvfz ssl-1.14.tar.gz
cd ssl-1.14
stdeb_run_setup
cd deb_dist/ssl-1.14
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us
sudo dpkg -i ../python-ssl_1.14-1_amd64.deb

For complete bcfg2 goodness, you'll also want to package stdeb using stdeb:

sudo aptitude install apt-file
wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/stdeb/stdeb-0.3.tar.gz#md5=e692f745597dcdd9343ce133e3b910d0
tar xvfz stdeb-0.3.tar.gz
cd stdeb-0.3
stdeb_run_setup
cd deb_dist/stdeb-0.3
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us
sudo dpkg -i ../python-stdeb_0.3-1_all.deb