Note: This plugin is not ready to use in production
Deb archives is a great way for distribute your software package
Install plugin:
npm install --saveDev gulp-deb
Then you can use it in your gulpfile
var gulp = require('gulp');
var deb = require('gulp-deb');
gulp.task('build', function () {
return gulp
.src([
'src/**',
'node_modules/**',
'!**/.git/**'
], { base: process.cwd() })
.pipe(deb('example.deb', {
name: 'example',
version: '1',
maintainer: {
name: 'John Doe',
email: 'john.doe@example.org'
},
architecture: 'all', // Optional. String. Architecture
installedSize: 1024, // Optional. Integer. Installed-Size, KiB.
preDepends: [
'dpkg (>= 1.15.6)'
], // Optional. Array or String. Pre-Depends
depends: [
'libc6 (>= 2.1)'
], // Optional. Array or String. Depends
recommends: null, // Optional. Array or String. Recommends
suggests: null, // Optional. Array or String. Suggests
enhances: null, // Optional. Array or String. Enhances
section: 'devel', // Optional. String. Section
priority: 'optional', // Optional. String. Priority
homepage: 'example.org', // Optional. String. Homepage
short_description: 'some short description',
long_description: 'some long description',
user: 'someuser', // Optional. String. Username to set as owner of files
group: 'somegroup', // Optional. String. Group to set as owner of files
packageRoot: '/opt/abc' // Optional. String. Target directory (created if necessary)
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('builds/'));
});
More information about package control files here.
These files are executable scripts which are automatically run before or after a package is installed. Read more here.
var gulp = require('gulp');
var deb = require('gulp-deb');
var fs = require("fs");
gulp.task('build', function () {
var preinstContent = fs.readFileSync("scripts/preinst", "utf8");
var postrmContent = fs.readFileSync("scripts/postrm", "utf8");
return gulp
.src([
'src/**',
'node_modules/**',
'!**/.git/**'
], { base: process.cwd() })
.pipe(deb('example.deb', {
name: 'example',
version: '1.0.0-1',
maintainer: {
name: 'John Doe',
email: 'john.doe@example.org'
},
short_description: 'some short description',
long_description: 'some long description',
//...
scripts: {
preinst: preinstContent,
postrm: postrmContent
}
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('builds/'));
});
- Add
md5sums
option for generate corresponding file with checksum for every file
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