Can't rebuild percona-toolkit debian package

[Stephan Rügamer]

Good Afternoon from California,

I'm trying to rebuild the debian package which you are providing here:

http://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-toolkit/LATEST/

This is not possible, because there is no debian source package.

In the provided source tarball, there is no debian/ directory or even a .spec file.
The source tarball is different from the bazaar sourcetree (missing config/ dir).

Furthermore, using the bazaar repo, in your build scripts, you are building the package not in a clean buildserver environment, but as it looks like directly via dpkg-buildpackage.

This is for automatic build infrastructures not suitable.

Would it be possible to provide real debian packages, which are build in a clean chroot buildserver environment, or
when this is not easily possible, provide real debian source packages, so that customers and users can rebuild them properly?

Thanks :)

Regards,

Stephan

[Daniel Nichter (daniel-nichter)]

Hello Stephan. It's not surprising that the .deb packages aren't prefect: since I'm not a build engineer, I've just used what's worked well enough over the years. I'll ask Percona's build engineer if he can help us improve the packaging. Or, if you're experience with such things, you can submit a branch with a modified util/build-packages that builds the .deb cleanly.

[Dario Minnucci (midget)]

Hi all,

My 2 cents in case it helps...

Here is the git repo [0] I'm using to maintain the official 'pecona-toolkit' package for Debian distribution.
You can find the 'debian' directory under this tree [1].

[0] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/percona-toolkit.git;a=summary
[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/percona-toolkit.git;a=tree

Regards,

[Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar)]

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PT-555