Packaging for Bazel

Rules

pkg_tar
pkg_deb
pkg_rpm

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.
`config`	`File, optional` config file used for debconf integration. See https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#prompting-in-maintainer-scripts.
`templates`	`File, optional` templates file used for debconf integration. See https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#prompting-in-maintainer-scripts.
`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.