Packaging for Bazel

Overview

These build rules are used for building various packaging such as tarball and debian package.

Basic Example

This example is a simplification of the debian packaging of Bazel:

load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/pkg:pkg.bzl", "pkg_tar", "pkg_deb")

pkg_tar(
    name = "bazel-bin",
    strip_prefix = "/src",
    package_dir = "/usr/bin",
    srcs = ["//src:bazel"],
    mode = "0755",
)

pkg_tar(
    name = "bazel-tools",
    strip_prefix = "/",
    package_dir = "/usr/share/lib/bazel/tools",
    srcs = ["//tools:package-srcs"],
    mode = "0644",
)

pkg_tar(
    name = "debian-data",
    extension = "tar.gz",
    deps = [
        ":bazel-bin",
        ":bazel-tools",
    ],
)

pkg_deb(
    name = "bazel-debian",
    architecture = "amd64",
    built_using = "unzip (6.0.1)",
    data = ":debian-data",
    depends = [
        "zlib1g-dev",
        "unzip",
    ],
    description_file = "debian/description",
    homepage = "http://bazel.build",
    maintainer = "The Bazel Authors <bazel-dev@googlegroups.com>",
    package = "bazel",
    version = "0.1.1",
)

Here, the Debian package is built from three pkg_tar targets:

  • bazel-bin creates a tarball with the main binary (mode 0755) in /usr/bin,
  • bazel-tools create a tarball with the base workspace (mode 0644) to /usr/share/bazel/tools ; the modes attribute let us specifies executable files,
  • debian-data creates a gzip-compressed tarball that merge the three previous tarballs.

debian-data is then used for the data content of the debian archive created by pkg_deb.

Future work

  • Support more format, especially pkg_zip.
  • Maybe a bit more integration with the docker_build rule.

pkg_tar

pkg_tar(name, extension, strip_prefix, package_dir, srcs,
mode, modes, deps, symlinks)

Creates a tar file from a list of inputs.

Attributes
name Name, required

A unique name for this rule.

extension String, default to 'tar'

The extension for the resulting tarball. The output file will be 'name.extension'. This extension also decide on the compression: if set to tar.gz or tgz then gzip compression will be used and if set to tar.bz2 or tar.bzip2 then bzip2 compression will be used.

strip_prefix String, optional

Root path of the files.

The directory structure from the files is preserved inside the tarball but a prefix path determined by strip_prefix is removed from the directory structure. This path can be absolute from the workspace root if starting with a / or relative to the rule's directory. A relative path may start with "./" (or be ".") but cannot use ".." to go up level(s). By default, the strip_prefix attribute is unused and all files are supposed to have no prefix. A strip_prefix of "" (the empty string) means the same as the default.

package_dir String, optional

Target directory.

The directory in which to expand the specified files, defaulting to '/'. Only makes sense accompanying files.

srcs List of files, optional

File to add to the layer.

A list of files that should be included in the archive.

mode String, default to 0555

Set the mode of files added by the files attribute.

mtime int, seconds since Jan 1, 1970, default to -1 (ignored)

Set the mod time of files added by the files attribute.

portable_mtime bool, default True

Set the mod time of files added by the files attribute to a 2000-01-01.

modes Dictionary, default to '{}'

A string dictionary to change default mode of specific files from files. Each key should be a path to a file before appending the prefix package_dir and the corresponding value the octal permission of to apply to the file.

modes = { "tools/py/2to3.sh": "0755", ... },

owner String, default to '0.0'

UID.GID to set the default numeric owner for all files provided in files.

owners Dictionary, default to '{}'

A string dictionary to change default owner of specific files from files. Each key should be a path to a file before appending the prefix package_dir and the corresponding value the UID.GID numeric string for the owner of the file. When determining owner ids, this attribute is looked first then owner.

owners = { "tools/py/2to3.sh": "42.24", ... },

ownername String, optional

username.groupname to set the default owner for all files provided in files (by default there is no owner names).

ownernames Dictionary, default to '{}'

A string dictionary to change default owner of specific files from files. Each key should be a path to a file before appending the prefix package_dir and the corresponding value the username.groupname string for the owner of the file. When determining ownernames, this attribute is looked first then ownername.

owners = { "tools/py/2to3.sh": "leeroy.jenkins", ... },

deps List of labels, optional

Tar files to extract and include in this tar package.

A list of tarball labels to merge into the output tarball.

symlinks Dictionary, optional

Symlinks to create in the output tarball.

symlinks = { "/path/to/link": "/path/to/target", ... },

remap_paths Dictionary, optional

Source path prefixes to remap in the tarfile.

remap_paths = { "original/path/prefix": "replaced/path", ... },

pkg_deb

pkg_deb(name, data, package, architecture, maintainer, preinst, postinst, prerm, postrm, version, version_file, description, description_file, built_using, built_using_file, priority, section, homepage, depends, suggests, enhances, conflicts, predepends, recommends)

Create a debian package. See http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html for more details on this.

Attributes
name Name, required

A unique name for this rule.

data File, required

A tar file that contains the data for the debian package (basically the list of files that will be installed by this package).

package String, required

The name of the package.

architecture String, default to 'all'

The architecture that this package target.

See http://www.debian.org/ports/.

maintainer String, required

The maintainer of the package.

preinst, postinst, prerm and postrm Files, optional

Respectively, the pre-install, post-install, pre-remove and post-remove scripts for the package.

See http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html.

conffiles, conffiles_file String list or File, optional

The list of conffiles or a file containing one conffile per line. Each item is an absolute path on the target system where the deb is installed.

See https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-conffile.

version, version_file String or File, required

The package version provided either inline (with version) or from a file (with version_file).

description, description_file String or File, required

The package description provided either inline (with description) or from a file (with description_file).

built_using, built_using_file String or File

The tool that were used to build this package provided either inline (with built_using) or from a file (with built_using_file).

priority String, default to 'optional'

The priority of the package.

See http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities.

section String, default to 'contrib/devel'

The section of the package.

See http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections.

homepage String, optional

The homepage of the project.

depends, suggests, enhances, conflicts, predepends and recommends. String list, optional

The list of dependencies in the project.

See http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps.

pkg_rpm

pkg_rpm(name, spec_file, architecture, version, version_file, changelog, data)

Create an RPM package. See http://rpm.org/documentation.html for more details on this.

Attributes
name Name, required

A unique name for this rule. Used to name the output package.

spec_file File, required

The RPM specification file used to generate the package.

See http://ftp.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-build-creating-spec-file.html.

architecture String, default to 'all'

The architecture that this package target.

version, version_file String or File, required

The package version provided either inline (with version) or from a file (with version_file).

data Files, required

Files to include in the generated package.