[TriLUG] September Meeting: Making Debian Packages

[Bill Farrow]

Topic: Making Debian Packages
Presenter: Igor Partola
When: 7PM, Thursday September 8, 2011
Where:Red Hat Worldwide Headquarters
http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/americas/raleigh.html
Permalink:http://trilug.org/2011-09-08/debianizing

Have you ever wished you could `apt-get install allmyapps`? After this
presentation you can!

Deploying software to a production environment often presents
challenges to those charged with infrastructure and operations. It is
typical for each piece of software to come with a separate deployment
and startup procedure, a unique layout of configuration files, and a
different logging strategy.

Using the standard Debian package format is one way to unify software
deployment. TriLUG member Igor Partola will be showing how to use
Debian packages to create a powerful and flexible build and deploy
process for your software.

The talk will include a tutorial portion showing how to prepare and
package a piece of existing software, as well as a discussion of how
to set up repositories for hosting your packages.

Igor Partola works as a developer and "man behind the curtain" at
TransLoc Inc where, amongst other things, he has packaged most of the
software stack as Debian packages. He has a wide array of interests in
software engineering, including web applications and web application
infrastructure and operations, mobile development and networking.