Debian and Ubuntu packages for Phusion Passenger (opens in new tab)

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33 pointsninh12y ago10 comments

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rlpb12y 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.

FooBarWidget12y ago

That's exactly what we're trying to do. We've already contacted Debian/Ubuntu packagers about this.

jlgaddis12y 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/

antihero12y 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.

rlpb12y ago

+1. Using HTTP over HTTPS also assists with proxy caching. This can help things like CI run much faster in datacenter environments.

FooBarWidget12y ago

Can't you just create a local APT mirror?

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themckman12y 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.

FooBarWidget12y 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

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10 comments

rlpb12y 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.

FooBarWidget12y ago

That's exactly what we're trying to do. We've already contacted Debian/Ubuntu packagers about this.

jlgaddis12y 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/

antihero12y ago

What with package signing, having an HTTPS repo is kind of pointless.

rlpb12y ago

+1. Using HTTP over HTTPS also assists with proxy caching. This can help things like CI run much faster in datacenter environments.

FooBarWidget12y ago

Can't you just create a local APT mirror?

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themckman12y ago

FooBarWidget12y ago

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

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