I like the idea of find to remove svn and then just zip (so windows is ok).
Thanks!
Eric
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Alex Dean <
alex@crackpot.org> wrote:
> For our Rails application at my job (which bundles Ruby, Apache, Postgres,
> etc, etc...), we install everything into a scratch directory, use find to
> remove all .svn files, and make a tarball of the result. There's a lot more
> that goes on, but that's the basic process.
>
> The customer just unpacks the tarball and runs a script to fire the whole
> thing up. We don't support Windows for this app, so I don't have any
> experience packaging for that platform. I think our other products which do
> run on Windows use an InstallShield installer.
>
> alex
>
>
> On Mar 11, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Eric Cope wrote:
>
> It needs to be deployed to Linux and Windows. I can't just tar /dir
>> because I have .svn files I don't want to include as well as test
>> directories. I planned on using a form of tar/zip.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:16 PM, James Finstrom <
>> jfinstrom@rhinoequipment.com> wrote:
>> What distro is it running, It is pretty simple to make RPM's
>>
>> You can also as suggested simply tar it up tar -czvf myapp.tar.gz
>> /full/path/to/app/
>> On the server tar -xzvf myapp.tar.gz -C /
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Its a web app intended to install on internal web servers that should not
>> have public access.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:57 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> If this is a web app, then, why not use FTP?
>>
>> ------------------------
>> Keith Smith
>>
>>
>> --- On Thu, 3/11/10, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
>>
>> > From: Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>
>> > Subject: Re: OT: Method of packaging software for shipment
>> > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>> > Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:27 AM
>> > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:19 -0700,
>> > Eric Cope wrote:
>> > > Hello all,
>> > > I am wrapping a web application that is meant for
>> > installation on my
>> > > customer's servers. Does anyone have experience
>> > packaging up software
>> > > for shipment? What tools do you use? Can you offer any
>> > advice?
>> > ----
>> > probably just a tar/gzip but that would actually depend on
>> > what the
>> > application language is (php?) and what if any resources
>> > need to be made
>> > available (i.e. scripts for initializing an sql db, etc.)
>> > and also the
>> > platform (i.e. redhat only, or linux in general or all
>> > possible OS
>> > types).
>> >
>> > Craig
>> >
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