Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:42:29 +0200 From: "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [OT:] tools/methods for automated cross-platform packaging? Message-ID: <20120823104229.64a67154@dijkstra.cruwe.de>
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--Sig_/kaxI2KlQM8m/LQpS.l8Ow+n Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Currently, I am looking into the problem of providing software packages for different platforms via native packages in a Continuous Integration Environment. The software in question is pure Java, so binary compatibility and/or cross-compilation issue resolves to having a conforming JRE installed on the target-platform. I know this question is prone for another OSI-10 flame-war on the "Java is the OS" statement - please don't. It is a customer requirement I must conform to. The (non-)intelligence of that requirement might be questioned, but ... Having looked into the issue of cross-platform packaging systems, I have found mostly separate package managers which require to be installed on the target-platform and manage a separate environment (viz OpenPkg, IPS). These do not help, as the customers require native packages. Apparantly, there are tools which take compiled binaries and wrap those into some package-format - EPM and ProjectBuilder do such a thing. The first has it's last commit by December 2010 and the second seems to be a one-man-show, so those (I did not find alternatives) are of questionable value in a long-term productive environment. Other projects manage to provide packages for a multitude of platforms. Are these built (semi-)manually by volunteers or distribution providers or is there any packaging infrastructure available to automate the task of taking sources to compile and package them? As I am talking of Java, a tool which packages binaries would be entirely sufficient. Thanks for any ideas or hints, cheers, --=20 Christopher J. Ruwe TZ: GMT + 2h --Sig_/kaxI2KlQM8m/LQpS.l8Ow+n Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQNez9AAoJEJTIKW/o3iwU2OoP/ArjF4t1w2/LEYF6rHPjBhsV tPKa2iGRixsh/e1gIWG1Iz5OBKCUUKK4nMnn+QE6KMBoDbj2+7vZhifzXYwHpa3q HTZSsKHRSqM27alNsG3NkKIsTXRrjz2tGPKQMDEmpcSfHl2t5Y1Z6zyCa9bv3aAg AKoM0IDCqnU6GELynerdorOIm5l3grLaidUSuuNecIVJFG9wxX2pFztd8YzrjELb zSimS2y0yrf7mtYEYoWnGfwo69cQfsuGCz4pPe9/Ft7J6RW92pNlBqBtCSMnCsDA KmYbZQruCLoB/o7BsPiZfj4CqqoXPRuaTL7Ob8/r5uNWVRz4g2QJfHYFQSNz7XcM UYWh2jtIkuBbtaExPt7p9TfWDVzkgUmxLYstiSIQHnAcgFwfxyqxD2+KSz8v0liy 8Qq41tzuX9MO7c8NaWocXSl77ss3ycBW17Dssm/8rCtbhYJyhkAN0pH4sL27wslc EIvflf4i7PlNJBZVQ7MNXH/OUI0LjF51G9KrrJ+XNVYy7dmwjQLqpEi0EiozsH/C g3CpcaNzWA1q6rHGNTl2/CV9X6ButaRvbLWrH4qg7NZlJle9d6WTHkP0qB5UJ6hJ Ofezrl4JkhKiiDm2f57QcCK6AROwGvzXKIa5caH2elgm+/DlHQkFWjP/Uo3fDoVj ZQh1E79mupi4Rv8ilv4s =kYAG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/kaxI2KlQM8m/LQpS.l8Ow+n--
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