[Catalyst] Application deployment (was: [ANNOUNCE] Meios Photo Gallery App)

[catalyst at thebigmachine.org]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Bill Moseley wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:25:36PM -0500, catalyst at thebigmachine.org wrote:
>> Not only that, but I package them in nice little debian packages,
>> which takes care of moving all the templates and such to
>> /var/www/<app> and installing config files where appropriate.
>>
>> Not that this is necessarily the preferred approach to deployment,
>> but it does mean I can use debconf for per-system configuration,
>> among other things.
>>
>> Plus, I like to run my apps under apache (for the chocolatey
>> goodness provided by a server that just stays up and has much
>> tweakability). Making a package means I can automatically install
>> per-app apache config files and such.
>>
>> I'd be interested to learn what other people are doing for
>> deployment, since I couldn't find much about it on the wiki.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Simon.
>
> Simon,
>
> Would you mind adding this procedure to the Wiki?  (or point me to it
> if it's already there ;).
>
>


Not at all, however I can't promise when I will get it done.. It's not really
condensed down to much of a procedure right now, although perhaps writing out
what I'm doing will assist with that.

Regards,

Simon.