[pkg-go] Building golang-github-google-btree from its git repo

[Dmitry Smirnov]

Hi Matthew,

On Sunday 18 October 2015 20:57:31 Matthew Dawson wrote:
> I'm working on building a copy of etcd for Jessie, as part of my work to
> get Kubernetes on my Jessie system

Why? Etcd is as a statically linked binary so you do not need to re-build it 
for Jessie. Just use the package from "testing" as is. You can use Apt-
Pinning technique to allow list of certain packages to be installed from 
"testing".


> (I saw the ITP, and would be happy to help if possible).

Thanks. I think Kubernetes is strategically important for Debian as we may be 
losing our audience to inferior RHEL/CentOS because Debian is not yet 
enterprise-container-ready...

I've made some progress with Kubernetes packaging -- a lot of effort!
I've taken care of build system, init/systemd scripts, man pages and some of 
the dependencies. I'm planning to publish first draft of the packaging before 
end of the week. However there are many dependencies are due to be packaged. 
Here is the incomplete list:

		bitbucket.org/ww/goautoneg
		speter.net/go/exp
		github.com/beorn7/perks
		github.com/codegangsta/negroni
		github.com/daviddengcn/go-colortext
		github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go
		github.com/elazarl/go-bindata-assetfs
		github.com/emicklei/go-restful
		github.com/evanphx/json-patch
		github.com/ghodss/yaml
		github.com/golang/groupcache
		github.com/google/gofuzz
		github.com/imdario/mergo
		github.com/juju/ratelimit
		github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure
		github.com/rackspace/gophercloud
		github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name
		github.com/skynetservices/skydns
		github.com/xyproto/simpleredis

I can't package 'em all alone so any help with packaging of the above 
software would be much appreciated. I might be available for sponsorship. ;)

Some other dependencies (e.g. cadvisor, golang-github-fsouza-go-dockerclient) 
are almost ready and waiting for "runc" which is stuck in NEW queue...


> As part of this, I've been trying to build all of
> etcd's dependencies for Jessie as well.

I hope that you do not have to do that.


> I'm attempting to do this from
> their git repositories, so I can point an instance of Jenkins at the
> repositories and trigger builds automatically whenever there is an update.

OK. Just curious, you are building from repository instead of "apt-get 
source" to trigger automatic re-build?


> I managed to get to golang-github-google-btree, but I can't get it to
> compile.

??

> Looking at its repository, I noticed it is missing the usual
> debian/* tag,

Tagged, thanks for reminder.


> and attempting to build master with git-buildpackage always
> fails as it can't find the go files.  Is there a push missing for this
> package to allow it to build? Or do I need to pass an argument to gbp to
> work with this repository?

Everything is up-to-date and I believe that build problem is a 
misconfiguration of GBP. This particular repository layout ("master" for 
packaging; "upstream"/"pristine-tar" for upstream) is compatible with git-
buildpackage as long as you have something like the following in your 
"~/.gbp.conf" file (as far as I remember):

~~~~
    [git-buildpackage]
    tarball-dir = ../
~~~~


> Alternately, is this just not a supported method to build these packages?

I have no idea what "supported method" of building packages is. I usually 
build using "pbuilder" but I reckon any other method is good as long as it 
suits you...


> Would I be better off teaching Jenkins about Debian's archive format?  This
> seemed like a much more intensive approach, so I don't want to do this if
> I don't have too.

Sorry, I know nothing about Jenkins...


> For reference, I've so far used the command:
> git-buildpackage --git-ignore-branch --git-no-pristine-tar
> --git-export-dir=./ output-deb --git-builder='dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
> -D -us -uc -i -I' to build the other packages.  Each build happens in a
> Jessie Docker container.

I do not use git-buildpackage so I can't comment whether command is 
correct...

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Regards,
 Dmitry Smirnov
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