deb-npm-autopackage

A quick hack to make deb packages for npm modules.

Fetches node.js modules with npm, then makes a (somewhat messy) deb package around it.

Features

• Fetches code using npm
• Detects modules with binaries and sets the package arch accordingly
• Supports arbitrary versions
• Cleans up after itself

Bugs

• Scares lintian

Usage

$ ./deb-npm-autopackage.sh Usage: ./deb-npm-autopackage.sh packagename [version] $

Examples

sprintf

$ ./deb-npm-autopackage.sh sprintf
Building sprintf in /tmp/tmp.j62Pqnq1PW
/tmp/tmp.j62Pqnq1PW ~/deb-npm-autopackage
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/sprintf
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/sprintf
sprintf@0.1.1 ./node_modules/sprintf
[ output snipped ]
$ ls *deb
node-auto-sprintf_0.1.1_all.deb
$ dpkg -I node-auto-sprintf_0.1.1_all.deb 
 new debian package, version 2.0.
 size 4564 bytes: control archive= 573 bytes.
     338 bytes,    10 lines      control              
     376 bytes,     5 lines      md5sums              
 Package: node-auto-sprintf
 Version: 0.1.1
 Architecture: all
 Maintainer: Metricfire deb-npm-autopackage <deb-npm-autopackage@example.com>
 Installed-Size: 68
 Depends: node
 Section: libs
 Priority: optional
 Description: Automatically generated package for the nodejs package sprintf
  sprintf - see http://search.npmjs.org/#/sprintf for more.

sprintf with a specific version

$ ./deb-npm-autopackage.sh sprintf 0.1.0
[ output snipped ]
$ ls *deb
node-auto-sprintf_0.1.0_all.deb