[Distutils] Buildout recipe for managing .deb packages?

[Kent Tenney]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:27 PM, zooko <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
> On Apr 9, 2009, at 14:25 PM, Kent Tenney wrote:
>
>> to get an app to run or compile I do a bunch of
>> sudo apt-get install xxxx
>>
>> This can involve tedious trial and error.
>>
>> Maybe I like the app, maybe I don't.
>>
>> If I like it, I want a convenient format in which to remember the required
>> packages, automate their installation, provide convenience when building
>> machines.
>>
>> If I don't like it, I'd like to remove the packages I installed.
>>
>> Buildout does this for eggs, and tarballs via cmmi, I want the same
>> convenience for system packages.
>
> What I would do is turn the Python package into a .deb which declares its
> dependency on those other .deb's, using stdeb.  Then I do "sudo apt-get
> install $THAT_NEW_ONE" and it automatically brings in the others.  When I
> decide I don't like it, I do "sudo apt-get remove $THAT_NEW_ONE", and apt
> cleverly figures out that I don't need those other ones anymore.
>

Interesting, building on existing clever, good peg_shape/hole_shape match.

Thanks,
Kent

> Regards,
>
> Zooko
>