Salt Packaging Team

Infrastructure

Interacting with the team

Task description

Packaging of Salt (http://saltstack.com) and related projects.

HowTos

Initial Repository Setup

1) download the .tar.gz and dsc files from http://debian.madduck.net/repo/pool/main/s/salt/

2) Use git-import-dsc with madducks last 0.12.1 release:

git-import-dsc salt_0.12.1-1~bpo60+1~madduck.2.dsc --pristine-tar

3) Download and import the released 0.14.0 tar.gz from pypi:

wget -c https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/salt/salt-0.14.0.tar.gz#md5=0f9fa32f208356e41ac8e0976e927b41
git-import-orig ../salt-0.14.0.tar.gz -u 0.14.0

Packaging a new salt release

Decisions

Proposed Decisions

  1. Use of git and git-buildpackage for VCS
    • I think this is pretty likely given we are starting from scratch and the pros and cons from Andrii. 1 vote from JH