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author | Dan Molik <dan@danmolik.com> | 2019-01-05 07:01:08 -0500 |
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committer | Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> | 2019-01-06 14:46:20 -0800 |
commit | 70311e8fba3a14b5e5680970a6ceff9424603323 (patch) | |
tree | d1a206d67822cc06aafa4c4ece5f405325249e43 /dev-util/packer/metadata.xml | |
parent | app-arch/tar: arm64 stable (bug #674210) (diff) | |
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dev-util/packer: new package
Adding Hashicorp's packer utility to better support automated image
building. One can find documentation here: https://packer.io and find
the code base here: https://github.com/hashicorp/packer
Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/10744
Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/624472
Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.54, Repoman-2.3.12
Signed-off-by: Dan Molik <dan@danmolik.com>
Tested-by: Dan Molik <dan@danmolik.com>
Signed-off-by: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org>
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diff --git a/dev-util/packer/metadata.xml b/dev-util/packer/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..bda27c75a682 --- /dev/null +++ b/dev-util/packer/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> + <maintainer type="person"> + <email>dan@danmolik.com</email> + <name>Dan Molik</name> + </maintainer> + <maintainer type="project"> + <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email> + <name>Proxy Maintainers</name> + </maintainer> + <longdescription lang="en"> + Packer is an open source tool for creating identical machine images for + multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer is lightweight, + runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating + machine images for multiple platforms in parallel. Packer does not replace + configuration management like Chef or Puppet. In fact, when building images, + Packer is able to use tools like Chef or Puppet to install software onto the + image. + + A machine image is a single static unit that contains a pre-configured + operating system and installed software which is used to quickly create new + running machines. Machine image formats change for each platform. Some + examples include AMIs for EC2, VMDK/VMX files for VMware, OVF exports for + VirtualBox, etc. + </longdescription> + <upstream> + <changelog>https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md</changelog> + <remote-id type="github">hashicorp/packer</remote-id> + </upstream> +</pkgmetadata> |