graylog2-server - how to handle ubuntu vs debian packages ?

[aussielunix]

@joschi @smarchive Thanks for the contributions to graylog2 packaging. When packaging up Graylog2 I have stuck to a few rough guidelines.

• DEBs are specific to the current Ubuntu LTS
• DEBs have only minimal dependencies set to allow for running all of the things on separate servers (do no hard set depends on mongo etc)
• upstart only

I have normally kept a pre.rb in here too for building pre/rc packages.

You happy if I push a couple of changes to the graylog2-server recipe that removes some of your changes to bring the DEBs back to the rough guidelines mentioned above ?

Your Debian specific changes can be add back in but I am not sure how to approach this just yet. Any ideas welcome. @bernd ?

[bernd]

You could use FPM::Cookery::Facts.platform to execute OS specific actions in the install and build methods.

def install
  case Facts.platform
  when :ubuntu
    etc('init').install_p workdir('graylog2-server.upstart'), 'graylog2-server.conf'  
  when :debian
    etc('init.d').install_p workdir('graylog2-server.initd'), 'graylog2-server'
    etc('default').install_p workdir('graylog2-server.confd'), 'graylog2-server'
  end
end

[aussielunix]

@bernd This is awesome. I totally missed this featured was available. Thanks. I shall do some refactoring and push new recipe tomorrow night @joschi @smarchive

[bernd]

@aussielunix That's because I did not write any documentation yet... :disappointed:

[joschi]

Cool, thanks for taking care of this!

There are also "native" package specs for graylog2-server and graylog2-web which are working quite well. Maybe it would make sense to share some files (like Upstart or init scripts, example configurations, dependencies) with them.

[joshuatobin]

I've created a recipes example wiki page and added the Facts.platform helper method. https://github.com/bernd/fpm-cookery/wiki/Recipe-Examples

[bernd]

@joshuatobin Awesome, thank you! :+1: