vdist

Welcome to the home of vdist, a tool that lets you create OS packages from your Python applications in a clean and self contained manner. It uses virtualenv, Docker and fpm under the hood, and it uses Jinja2 to render its templates (shell scripts) for each individual target OS.

The source for vdist is available under the MIT license and can be found on Github

vdist is currently in alpha stage, but it should work just fine. If you find any issues, please report issues or submit pull requests via Github.

Here's a quickstart to give you an idea of how to use vdist, once you're set up.

from vdist.builder import Builder from vdist.source import git builder = Builder() builder.add_build( app='yourapp', version='1.0', source=git( uri='https://github.com/you/yourapp', branch='release-1.0' ), profile='ubuntu-trusty', build_deps=['libpq-dev'], runtime_deps=['libcurl3'] ) builder.build()

Running the above would do this:

set up a Docker container running Ubuntu Trusty Tahr

install the OS packages listed in build_deps (only libpq-dev in this case)

git clone the repository at https://github.com/you/yourapp

checkout the branch 'release-1.0'

set up a virtualenv for the checked out application

install your application's dependencies from requirements.txt if found in the checked out branch

wrap the virtualenv in a package called yourapp-1.0.deb which includes a dependency on the OS packages listed in runtime_deps

Similarly, the same build for CentOS 6 would look like this.

from vdist.builder import Builder from vdist.source import git builder = Builder() builder.add_build( app='yourapp', version='1.0', source=git( uri='https://github.com/you/yourapp', branch='release-1.0' ), profile='centos7', build_deps=['postgresql-devel'], runtime_deps=['libcurl3'] ) builder.build()

Read more about what vdist can do here