Articles tagged with Packaging
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We recently started experimenting with Ansible for automation of multi-step software installations on our servers. Quickly, we realized that Ansible version 1.7.2, which is available through Debian Jessie’s official repositories, doesn’t include all the features we needed. Sadly, the missing
recursive
option for theacl
module is first available in Ansible 2.0, which is not yet fully released. Official packages and Debian Testing packages were only available for Ansible version 1.9.4.In the end I decided to investigate how to manually build a Debian package. Here is what I found:
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Acquire the source repository
At first, I cloned the official Git-repository from GitHub:
cd /usr/local/src git clone --recursive https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
Then I checked-out the latest 2.0.0 RC tag:
cd ansible git checkout -b v2.0.0-0.7.rc2 tags/v2.0.0-0.7.rc2 git submodule update
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Install build-dependencies
The
mk-build-deps
command is part of thedevscripts
package. Thedebian
make task requiresasciidoc
to be installed. You can install these like this:sudo aptitude install asciidoc devscripts
To install the development packages necessary to build the Ansible package I generated a temporary package named
ansible-build-deps-depends
. This temporary package states dependencies on all the packages that are necessary for building the actual Ansible package.make DEB_DIST=jessie debian mk-build-deps --root-cmd sudo --install --build-dep deb-build/jessie/ansible-2.0.0/debian/control sudo aptitude markauto asciidoc
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Build the Ansible package
To generate the actual
.deb
file, I issued the following command:make DEB_DIST=jessie deb
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Install Ansible
And afterwards I installed the freshly built Ansible
.deb
package like this:sudo gdebi deb-build/jessie/ansible_2.0.0-0.git201512071813.cc98528.headsv20007rc2\~jessie_all.deb
In case you don’t have
gdebi
installed, for example if you don’t have a desktop environment running, you can use the following more noisy alternative:sudo dpkg -i deb-build/jessie/ansible_2.0.0-0.git201512071813.cc98528.headsv20007rc2\~jessie_all.deb sudo apt-get install -f
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Remove the build-dependencies again
After I built the Ansible package I just removed the temporary
ansible-build-deps-depends
package again.APT
will then automatically remove all the development dependencies that it depends upon, leaving a clean system.sudo aptitude purge ansible-build-deps-depends
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