Giternal Debian package

Jan 12, 2010 •

It's a rubygem. Happy to use them, but I don't want dependencies on Rubygems at the bottom of my toolchain. I also have a boostrapping problem because Rubygems get installed from a Puppet module, which I fetch using Giternal.

What to do? Make a Debian package! So I did. You can download it here. It depends on ruby. I can make a Debian repository if anybody likes that idea.

Here's a tiny example of the yaml file.

apache:
  repo: git@github.com:simpsonjulian/puppet-apache-ubuntu.git
  path: modules
common:
  repo: git@github.com:simpsonjulian/puppet-common.git
  path: modules

Here's the giternal Debian package install.

jsimpson@fox:~/Documents/workspace/giternal$ sudo dpkg -i giternal.deb
(Reading database ... 145351 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace giternal 0.1.0-debian1 (using giternal.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement giternal ...
Setting up giternal (0.1.0-debian1) ...

Here's giternal doing its thing.

Socks:puppet jsimpson$ giternal update
Updating common
 ..updated
Updating wordpress
 ..updated
Updating sudo
 ..updated

Image via (Git book author) tswicegood