Shione.net

Experimental Debian packaging and configuration. This project is mainly for educational purposes. However, the aim is to package shione-specific configuration in a way that would allow deployment to be reproducible.

Package-specific configuration

Because shione runs GNU/Linux Debian, I wish to transform per-package config into .deb packages themselves. This project is basically an application of config-package-dev. This will allow me to integrate the modifications I introduce to the said packages within the Debian packaging system which comes with many benefits.

Quickly rebuild a host machine from scratch if needed.
Know the configuration state of each machine using the package manager.
Automatically update configuration by updating the system itself.
Integrate complex post-installation configuration, possibly such as introducing cron jobs (is it possible?) as part of the configuration package.

Project hierarchy

It is not yet clear to me how I'll do this. I'm thinking perhaps about having a single source package that produces multiple "binary" packages. Each one would be a package-specific configuration. Standalone packages not specific to shione will probably reside in their own git repository under the Debian section.

References

https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/git.html
https://people.debian.org/~debalance/packaging-with-git.html
http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.import.upstream-git.html