ndeb

Utility to aid in creating Debian (.deb) packages for NodeJS.

Install

yarn add ndeb

Dependencies:

• dpkg
• fakeroot

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How it uses?

Just run this command with arguments:

ndeb --arg1 --arg2 -arg3

This command will add all of the above files and directories to a Debian package as well as generate the scripts necessary to install, uninstall, start, and stop your application. On installation, via dpkg -i $your_package_name, dedicated Unix users and groups will be created and your distribution's default init system will start and monitor the process.

Arguments

Name	About	Type	Default
v	Package version	required	-
n pkg-name	Package name for configurations and in the name of the app directory with source files.	required	-
dir	Folder with source files for packaging.	required	-
a	Architecture. For example, here are some any supported arch.	optional	all
b	Build number	optional	-
verbose	Debug mode	optional	-
desc	Comments for DEBIAN files.	optional	-
deb-dir	Directory for output deb files	optional	deb
sd-doc	Link to documentation	optional	-
--sd-env	Link to documentation	optional	-

Folder with source files for packaging.

--desc #required

Comments for DEBIAN files.

--verbose #required

Example

ndeb --b=123 --n=PackageName --user=UserName --group=GroupName --sources=SourceFolder --maintainer="John Doe" --desc="Any text" --depends=Dep1,Dep2 --sd-restart="on-failure" sd-execstart="/usr/bin/node /opt/packageName/app/build/server.js" --sd-doc=DocLink --sd-env="CONST_NAME=true,NODE_ENV=production"

These are all available through apt and brew.

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Support

ndeb only officially supports the currently supported versions of Debian and Ubuntu (LTS). This includes both for building packages and deploying packages. Care has been taken to ensure this packages correctly on macOS, and macOS specific issues should still be reported.