Make available via apt-get?

[Jamesking56]

Hello,

Is it possible to make this available via apt-get to install it as a service?

If not, how do I install it on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian as a service properly as mine is running in init.d but it uses some sort of default config file and ignores mine for some reason.

[brejoc]

It should be easy to generate a deb file with fpm, which could then be distributed with a reprepro repository.

[brejoc]

I was just looking though the sources, to see if the paths could easily be changed. If you'd like to generate a deb-package for groundcontrol you can't (or shouldn't) just pack everything in the same folder. Static, shared files (like html, css or image files) shouldn't be in the same folder as the binary e.g.

In main.go line 100 I found this: http.Handle("/", http.FileServer(http.Dir("./web/")))

I'm not very familiar with go, but this looks rather static to me. There are two possibilities for a package maintainer. Either refactor this part and make it more dynamic (e.g. look for web at several locations) or just create a patch with a new static path to the location used with a deb-package-installation.

Oh, and merry christmas btw! :)

[jondot]

Hey guys, I've been watching this issue lately, I'll try to take a dive with fpm to generate a package but it may take a bit of time since I'm working on a new open source project (that may relate to the Pi in a way).
Thanks for the pointers - I guess I'll bump into those issues when I try that.
Merry Christmas all :)

[brejoc]

@jondot you can take a look at my fpm makefiles for inspiration. Ping me if you need help!

[nedimlisica]

Hello,

I have been trying to make Arch Linux package (PKGBUILD).
For building I'm using go get since it both resolves dependencies and builds binary.
After building there are thre dirs in $GOPATH - bin, src and pkg. This resembles content of /usr/lib/go
which is set as $GOROOT by default on Arch. Running groundcontrol from $GOPATH/bin results in empty web page, so it should look for web folder in $GO{PATH,ROOT}/src/...

[brejoc]

@vulpesvelox could you please post a link to your pkg descr. file, so that I can take a look at it!?

[nedimlisica]

Sure, here it is.
http://pastebin.com/u4WGK3vT
And this is built package.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/50itu75syigt05n/XppPuzVygh/groundcontrol-git-0.0.3-1-any.pkg.tar

[brejoc]

@vulpesvelox I'm not really familiar with Arch packaging (or go :), but to me it looks like you are not actually building groundcontrol (go build *.go) - although the groundcontrol binary appears to be in your package.

The source files from $GOPATH won't have to be in your package. These sources are only needed to build groundcontrol. You only need the groundcontrol binary, the web-folder, a groundcontrol.json in etc and the init-script. Since the path to web is hard coded to ./web/, you might want to put the groundcontrol binary and web into /opt/groundcontrol/ or something like that.

I hope that helps a bit!

[nedimlisica]

I took your advice and installed everything in /opt, but the problem is page works only if I run binary from dir where it's installed.
For example, "/opt/groundcontrol-git/groundcontrol" gives me 404, but
"cd /opt/groundcontrol-git ; groundcontrol" works.

[brejoc]

@vulpesvelox yeah, I guess you'll either have to deal with it in the init script or patch the sources. If I read the sources correctly, ground control assumes that the folder web is found in pwd.

This question from stackoverflow might help you if you decide to patch the sources. You might also open an other issue for this. Perhaps @jondot has better ideas. ;)

[nedimlisica]

Thank you. I'll try to come up with something.

[Jamesking56]

Any updates on this?

[brejoc]

Take a look at #33. You are now able to generate you own packages with fpm. I can't provide you with a test package, because all of my raspberries are in use. But feel free to give me feedback!

[brejoc]

@Jamesking56 did you test it? Everything okay?