[KAFKA-1324] Debian packaging

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: packaging
• Labels: deb debian fpm newbie packaging
• Environment: linux
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David Stendardi
• Created: 25/Mar/14 12:59
• Updated: 24/Aug/17 11:45
• Resolved: 04/Apr/15 21:59

Description

The following patch add a task releaseDeb to the gradle build :

./gradlew releaseDeb

This task should create a debian package in core/build/distributions using fpm :
https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm.

We decided to use fpm so other package types would be easy to provide in further iterations (eg : rpm).

Some implementations details :

• We splitted the releaseTarGz in two tasks : distDir, releaseTarGz.
• We tried to use gradle builtin variables (project.name etc...)
• By default the service will not start automatically so the user is free to setup the service with custom configuration.

Notes :

• FPM is required and should be in the path.
• FPM does not allow yet to declare /etc/default/kafka as a conffiles (see : https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/issues/668)