Re: Linux Packages

2013-03-31 Thread mrevilgnome
Thanks for sharing your process. After spending some time attempting to do it the right way, I too ended up just going for quick and dirty. I've automated the process and made my script available at: https://github.com/mstump/kafka-debian It installs kafka to /opt and creates an upstart script fo

Re: Linux Packages

2013-03-29 Thread Manish Bhatt
BTW, here is how one guy did it. He rebuilds the upstream tarball after the build so there is no discrepancy for the debian build packaging scripts. https://github.com/wikimedia-incubator/kafka-debian On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Manish Bhatt wrote: > We are trying that right now for Debia

Re: Linux Packages

2013-03-29 Thread Manish Bhatt
We are trying that right now for Debian and finding that the current version makes it nearly impossible to follow packaging best practices. 1) The build process does not allow specification of a target directory, and thus pollutes the upstream package. 2) The build process downloads packages durin

Re: Linux Packages

2013-03-29 Thread Jonathan Creasy
We have EL6 packages. On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:01 PM, mrevilgnome wrote: > Has anyone gone through the effort of packaging Kafka for Ubuntu, Debian, > or CentOS? I'm partially through the process for Ubuntu, and I figured I > should ask. Thanks. > > --Matt > -- ** *Jonathan Creasy* | Sr.

Linux Packages

2013-03-29 Thread mrevilgnome
Has anyone gone through the effort of packaging Kafka for Ubuntu, Debian, or CentOS? I'm partially through the process for Ubuntu, and I figured I should ask. Thanks. --Matt