Use normalizedName as the default appUser for Linux Packages

[aparkinson]

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[jsuereth]

Nice! Looks good to me.

[aparkinson]

Great

@jsuereth and @muuki88 What is left todo for the next release?

[jsuereth]

I think just checking the server stuff against RPM practices....

[muuki88]

I'm trying to close some of the minor tickets (documentation stuff, error logging, etc.)
On which systems do you test RPM @jsuereth ? I may have some time to help you there.

Most of the open tickets are for rpm. I think the only critical one is #76
If we can at least specify a minimum rpm version in the docs, then we would be fine.

[jsuereth]

I usually try to make sure Latest Fedora + Latest CentOS available on EC2 work. Work beyond that can be contributed by those who use the systems and understand how to do the compatibility/fixes better than those of us who aren't users :).

If you do any work here, just remember to update the compatibility matrix :)

[muuki88]

Should we create a milestone on github an gather the last few tickets?

[jsuereth]

Sounds like a good plan!

Note: I'm explicitly ignoring windows server support for now. I think that'll require a full rev, and quite a bit of hackery, so let's leave that out of the next major release milestone issues.

[aparkinson]

A milestone sounds like a good idea.

Perhaps cut another milestone release this week for the Debian changes?

[jsuereth]

I'll cut one right now. Should help testing the RPM support.

[muuki88]

Awesome. Are the docs also visible?

• about windows: this will be really tough. Is there a way to test in server editions, if you dont have one?
• RPM support is okay for 0.7, we should be able to do this

@jsuereth would you be able to pull some data about OS distributions of play/akka systems? May help to set the right focus.

[jsuereth]

No, haven't pushed 0.7 docs, would you like me to?

Here's the milestone for next release: https://github.com/sbt/sbt-native-packager/issues?milestone=1&state=open

• For windows, once I have a chance to get the sbt automation up and running, we'll have something using the sbt-native-packager to create MSIs for sbt distributions. While that infrastructure may be private (to hide access to publishing credentials), I might be able to swing some kind of PR-validation hook.
• For rpm support - it seems quite close. The only thing I want to check is how far the diff is between CentOS/Fedora/Debian in terms of supported utilities we use in SystemV. Hoping it's minimal.

I'll see if I can get us some idea of OS distributions in production. The reality is that Typesafe mostly hears from customers, which is just a fraction of the total users out there. Maybe we could push a survey to see what comes.

[aparkinson]

Off the top of my head I know CentOS doesn't support start-stop-daemon but provides a daemon function as an alternate.

[jsuereth]

Oh, forgot to mention, 0.7.0-M2 should be live.

Also, we'll have to figure out how to handle the different templates for CentOS vs. Debian then...

[muuki88]

Docs live would be great, too :)

[aparkinson]

@jsuereth Where did 0.7.0-M2 get published to? I'm having trouble locating it

[jsuereth]

SO am I. I think we have a publishing issue on bintray I need to resolve.

[aparkinson]

Anything I can help with?

[muuki88]

Should we publish to maven-central for redundancy, too?

[jsuereth]

No. sbt plugin break maven conventions enough, that we've already had complaints. Bintray should be fine, I've raised the issue.

What we should do is open a ticket to publish to bintray directly. That way everyone would have credentials. @muuki88 @aparkinson Why don't you guys make bintray credentials now?

[jsuereth]

Also, forgot to mention we use bintray so we have a stable/friendly location for RPMs/DEBs/MSIs/ZIPs of sbt itself. Not sure you've seen this (our first client): https://github.com/sbt/sbt-launcher-package/blob/master/project/packaging.scala

includes the mechanism to directly publish to bintray

[aparkinson]

I've created a bintray account, same user name as GitHub

Nice example!

[muuki88]

Me, too. https://bintray.com/muuki88
Oh, didnt no that.