swift/doc/source/debian_package_guide.rst

Building and Deploying Custom Debian packages for Swift

This documents setting up the prerequisites, downloading the code and building Debian packages necessary to deploy the various components of the swift project code. These steps were done on a server running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx), but should give a good idea what to do on other distros.

Instructions for Deploying Swift-Core PPAs

These packages are built from the current development branch "trunk"

• Add swift-core/ppa repository. As root::

  apt-get install python-software-properties
  add-apt-repository ppa:swift-core/trunk
  apt-get update

• Install the swift base packages:

  apt-get install python-swift
  apt-get install swift

• Install the swift packages depending on your implementations:

  apt-get install swift-auth
  apt-get install swift-proxy
  apt-get install swift-account
  apt-get install swift-container
  apt-get install swift-object

• Copy sample configuration files to /etc/swift directory and rename them to `*.conf files`:

  cp -a /usr/share/doc/swift/*.conf-sample /etc/swift/ 
  cd /etc/swift ; rename 's/\-sample$//' *.conf-sample

• For servers running the swift-account, swift-container or swift-object the rsync.conf file should be moved to the /etc directory:

  cd /etc/swift
  mv rsyncd.conf /etc

• Modify configuration files to meet your implementation requirements the defaults have been not been geared to a multi-server implementation.

Instructions for Building Debian Packages for Swift

• Add swift-core/ppa repository and install prerequisites. As root:

  apt-get install python-software-properties
  add-apt-repository ppa:swift-core/ppa
  apt-get update
  apt-get install curl gcc bzr python-configobj python-coverage python-dev 
  python-nose python-setuptools python-simplejson python-xattr  
  python-webob python-eventlet python-greenlet debhelper python-sphinx 
  python-all python-openssl python-pastedeploy

• As you

  1. Tell bzr who you are:

     bzr whoami '<Your Name> <youremail@.example.com>'
     bzr lp-login <your launchpad id>

  2. Create a local bazaar repository for dev/testing:

     bzr init-repo swift

  3. Pull down the swift/debian files:

     cd swift 
     bzr branch lp:~swift-core/swift/debian

  4. If you want to merge in a branch:

     cd debian
     bzr merge lp:<path-to-branch>

  5. Create the debian packages:

     cd debian 
     bzr bd --builder='debuild -uc -us'

  6. Upload packages to your target servers:

     cd .. 
     scp *.deb root@<swift-target-server>:~/.

Instructions for Deploying Debian Packages for Swift

• On a Target Server, As root:

  1. Setup the swift ppa:

     add-apt-repository ppa:swift-core/ppa
     apt-get update

  2. Install dependencies:

     apt-get install rsync python-openssl python-setuptools python-webob
     python-simplejson python-xattr python-greenlet python-eventlet

  3. Install base packages:

     dpkg -i python-swift_<version>_all.deb 
     dpkg -i swift_<version>_all.deb

  4. Install packages depending on your implementation:

     dpkg -i swift-auth_<version>_all.deb    
     dpkg -i swift-proxy_<version>_all.deb
     dpkg -i swift-account_<version>_all.deb  
     dpkg -i swift-container_<version>_all.deb  
     dpkg -i swift-object_<version>_all.deb  
     dpkg -i swift-doc_<version>_all.deb

  5. Copy sample configuration files to /etc/swift directory and rename them to `*.conf files`:

     cp -a /usr/share/doc/swift/*.conf-sample /etc/swift/ 
     cd /etc/swift 
     rename 's/\-sample$//' *.conf-sample

  6. For servers running the swift-account, swift-container or swift-object the rsync.conf file should be moved to the /etc directory:

     cd /etc/swift/ 
     mv rsyncd.conf /etc

  7. Modify configuration files to meet your implementation requirements the defaults have been not been geared to a multi-server implementation.