Build Foreman packages for Wheezy

Build Foreman packages for Wheezy
	Foreman on Wheezy (not!)

These guys have their packaging effort for Debian online through Git as well. That's definitely cool! and it makes pacakging for Wheezy a breeze.

Clone the foreman-rpms git repo

apprentice@buildhost:~$ git clone git://github.com/theforeman/foreman-rpms

Build the Foreman-proxy

apprentice@buildhost:~$ git clone git://github.com/theforeman/smart-proxy.git apprentice@buildhost:~$ cd smart-proxy apprentice@buildhost:~$ git checkout 9ea6076283d744ba55163ad45e3bacd96a1add72 apprentice@buildhost:~$ cp -r ../foreman-rpms/debian/squeeze/stable/foreman-proxy ./debian apprentice@buildhost:~$ DIST=wheezy pdebuild --debsign-k BCB62767

	Note
	Creating the package building infrastructure this step needs is beyond the scope of this document. It's easier to use `debuild`, particularly debuild -us-uc if you don't have such infrastructure. But only do that on an expendable system.

Build Foreman itself

apprentice@buildhost:~$ git clone git://github.com/theforeman/foreman apprentice@buildhost:~$ cd foreman apprentice@buildhost:~$ cp -r ../foreman-rpms/debian/squeeze/stable/foreman ./debian # ruby-bundler is only in the Foreman repo. Bundler is in Wheezy. apprentice@buildhost:~$ sed -i 's/ruby-bundler/bundler/g' debian/control apprentice@buildhost:~$ git checkout 1.0-stable apprentice@buildhost:~$ DIST=wheezy pdebuild --debsign-k BCB62767 # This fixes a file-not-found apprentice@buildhost:~$ rm debian/docs apprentice@buildhost:~$ DIST=wheezy pdebuild --debsign-k BCB62767
Upload the packages

apprentice@buildhost:~$ dupload --nomail -t foreman-stable-incoming ../lastbuild/wheezy/foreman_1.0.1+debian1_amd64.changes apprentice@buildhost:~$ dupload --nomail -t foreman-stable-incoming ../lastbuild/wheezy/foreman-proxy_1.0+debian1_amd64.changes

Note

The astute reader will have noticed that above it the stable version of Foreman packaged for Wheezy. I did try to install these packages, and the installation broke: uninitialized constant ApplicationHelper::HomeHelper <snip>

So I built packages of the nightly build on Wheezy. That's where we continue below.