Is there a Debian package for it?

There's a package in debian-unstable: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=714118

Work around:

$ ssh tools-login
$ become mytool
# https://getcomposer.org/download/
$ mkdir bin
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=bin --filename=composer
# Now installed in ~/bin/composer
# Make sure your bash PATH includes "$HOME/bin". Set in .bashrc if needed.
$ which composer
# /data/project/:tool/bin/composer

Now composer is available to e.g.

(mytool at tools-login in ~)$ cd my-repo
(mytool at tools-login in ~/my-repo)$ composer install --no-dev

After discussing with @Joe and @hashar:

• backporting the package to precise and trusty is probably difficult.
• to solve the issue on the integration cluster, https://github.com/wikimedia/integration-composer is used (git checkout, then use /srv/deployment/integration/composer/vendor/bin/composer)

We could use the latter method for tool labs as well. See https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-puppet/blob/00c433345214115e5a5b05eb6d83eedabfbf7110/modules/contint/manifests/slave-scripts.pp#L29 and https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-puppet/blob/acacf97e2df962fef83487a461f3559fa07e4d6f/modules/extdist/manifests/init.pp#L74 for current usage.

A few things I tried.

• building an fpm package from the integration/composer repo works: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/240451/
  • but might not be an improvement over just using git co, unless we can automate it
• backporting is more of an issue

Backporting log for @hashar:

• sudo apt-get install devscripts debian-keyring equivs

jsonlint:

• dget -x http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/j/jsonlint/jsonlint_1.3.1-2.dsc
• cd jsonlint
• dch --local ~toollabs+ --distribution jessie-toollabs "Backport"
• sudo mk-build-deps --install --remove # installs lots of stuff

after hacking the debian/rules, changing the version parsing to

| sed 's/.*(//' | sed 's/).*//')

• fakeroot debian/rules binary

works, but

• dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

fails

• After rm bin/jsonlint-php, I can build (but of course not sign). But lintian jsonlint_1.3.1-2~toollabs1+1_all.deb passes! Good.

(this is after ca. 50 minutes of fiddling...)

php-cli-prompt:

• dget -x http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/php-cli-prompt/php-cli-prompt_1.0.0+dfsg-1.dsc
  • cd php-cli-prompt_..etc
  • dch --local ~toollabs+ --distribution jessie-toollabs "Backport"
  • debuild

worked immediately.

json-schema: same sed issue, but works with the same hack

composer:

• dget -x http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/composer/composer_1.0.0~alpha10+20150602-1.dsc
• dch --local ~toollabs+ --distribution jessie-toollabs "Backport"
• build requires jsonlint, fun fun fun.
• sudo mk-build-deps --install --remove doesn't seem to work at all?
  • manually installing seems to work
• but it requires php-symfony-console >= 2.4 and jessie bundles 2.3, so we have to backport and install those as well?

This took me > 1 hour, so I gave up at this point.

Let's just do the git checkout + symlink option via puppet? We can make it a composer::install class or something and include it in both tools and integration

Change 246072 had a related patch set uploaded (by Merlijn van Deen):
toollabs: add composer to dev hosts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/246072

Change 246072 merged by Yuvipanda:
toollabs: add composer to dev hosts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/246072