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Debian and Ubuntu packages for Phusion Passenger

33 points by ninh 13y ago

rlpb 13y ago
Any chance of coordinating with Debian and Ubuntu to get up-to-date packages into the official Debian and Ubuntu repositories? Ubuntu has a backports repository which would be an appropriate venue for the latest and greatest of nginx, phusion passenger, etc.
- FooBarWidget 13y ago
  That's exactly what we're trying to do. We've already contacted Debian/Ubuntu packagers about this.
  - jlgaddis 13y ago
    You'll likely want to start by filing either an ITP or RFP "bug" against Debian's wnpp pseudo-package, depending on who will be maintaining the package. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
themckman 13y ago
Certainly off topic, but I'm curious if anyone has experience running Python apps under passenger. Loved Passenger when I was deploying Rails apps and would like to hear people's thoughts on it for Python.
- FooBarWidget 13y ago
  I know of several large users of Python + Phusion Passenger. Globo.com, one of the largest media companies in Brazil, runs Django on Phusion Passenger on some of their sites. There was also a site that monitors the forest firefighting progress in California, that runs on Python + Phusion Passenger. Unfortunately I forgot its name. We run Graphite (a Django app) on Phusion Passenger on our internal servers. By the way, we open source Node.js support in 4.0.16. Previously it was only available in the Enterprise variant. You can learn more at https://github.com/phusion/passenger/wiki/Node.js https://github.com/phusion/passenger/wiki/Node.js
antihero 13y ago
It would be really nice if they had a plain http version of the repo. The reason is, if I include the HTTPS repo in my deployment script, and it's the first time I've run it on a new Debian server, it fails to do an apt-get update because apt-transport-https isn't installed yet. What with package signing, having an HTTPS repo is kind of pointless.
- rlpb 13y ago
  +1. Using HTTP over HTTPS also assists with proxy caching. This can help things like CI run much faster in datacenter environments.
  - FooBarWidget 13y ago
    Can't you just create a local APT mirror?
    - rlpb 13y ago
      Sure you can, but for the entire archive? Running a caching HTTP proxy is far easier and more lightweight.
      - FooBarWidget 13y ago
        So run a caching HTTPS proxy instead?

33 points by ninh 13y ago

rlpb 13y ago

Any chance of coordinating with Debian and Ubuntu to get up-to-date packages into the official Debian and Ubuntu repositories? Ubuntu has a backports repository which would be an appropriate venue for the latest and greatest of nginx, phusion passenger, etc.

FooBarWidget 13y ago
That's exactly what we're trying to do. We've already contacted Debian/Ubuntu packagers about this.
- jlgaddis 13y ago
  You'll likely want to start by filing either an ITP or RFP "bug" against Debian's wnpp pseudo-package, depending on who will be maintaining the package. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/

themckman 13y ago

Certainly off topic, but I'm curious if anyone has experience running Python apps under passenger. Loved Passenger when I was deploying Rails apps and would like to hear people's thoughts on it for Python.

FooBarWidget 13y ago
I know of several large users of Python + Phusion Passenger. Globo.com, one of the largest media companies in Brazil, runs Django on Phusion Passenger on some of their sites. There was also a site that monitors the forest firefighting progress in California, that runs on Python + Phusion Passenger. Unfortunately I forgot its name. We run Graphite (a Django app) on Phusion Passenger on our internal servers. By the way, we open source Node.js support in 4.0.16. Previously it was only available in the Enterprise variant. You can learn more at https://github.com/phusion/passenger/wiki/Node.js https://github.com/phusion/passenger/wiki/Node.js

antihero 13y ago

It would be really nice if they had a plain http version of the repo. The reason is, if I include the HTTPS repo in my deployment script, and it's the first time I've run it on a new Debian server, it fails to do an apt-get update because apt-transport-https isn't installed yet. What with package signing, having an HTTPS repo is kind of pointless.

rlpb 13y ago
+1. Using HTTP over HTTPS also assists with proxy caching. This can help things like CI run much faster in datacenter environments.
- FooBarWidget 13y ago
  Can't you just create a local APT mirror?
  - rlpb 13y ago
    Sure you can, but for the entire archive? Running a caching HTTP proxy is far easier and more lightweight.
    - FooBarWidget 13y ago
      So run a caching HTTPS proxy instead?