Debian Packages for libRETS

This is a set of Debian packaging files for libRETS ( https://github.com/NationalAssociationOfRealtors/libRETS/releases ). Using these and the libRETS source, you should be able to build "librets1" and "librets-dev" packages.

This has been developed on Ubuntu 14.04, and should work on any recent Ubuntu or Debian release.

Building

WARNING: Once Debian Testing updates from Python 3.10 to something newer, this will no longer work.

The upstream has some issues with building under Ubuntu 22.04. To build for 22.04:

• Clone https://github.com/linsomniac/libRETS
• Run "docker build -t librets ."
• Run: "docker run -v /tmp/deb:/tmp/deb -it librets:latest /bin/bash"
• Run: "cp *.deb /tmp/deb"
• Run: "exit"

The packages should now be in "/tmp/deb" on your system.

Building (Legacy)

NOTE: This asumes the 1.6.5 version. If you are building a different version, Change the version number in the commands below and ALSO change "debian/changelog" where it says "1.6.5" to the version you are building.

Steps to build deb files:

• Download the libRETS tar file from the above URL

wget https://github.com/NationalAssociationOfRealtors/libRETS/archive/1.6.5.tar.gz

• Rename into Debian-compatible format

mv 1.6.5.tar.gz librets_1.6.5.orig.tar.gz

• Extract tar file

tar xf librets_1.6.5.orig.tar.gz

• Clone this repository to "debian" sub-directory

cd libRETS-1.6.5
git clone https://github.com/realgo/librets-package debian

• Run "debuild".
• Deb files should be in parent directory.

Sample run:

wget https://github.com/NationalAssociationOfRealtors/libRETS/archive/1.6.5.tar.gz
mv 1.6.5.tar.gz librets_1.6.5.orig.tar.gz
tar xf librets_1.6.5.orig.tar.gz
cd libRETS-1.6.5
git clone https://github.com/realgo/librets-package debian
debuild
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Docker

You can build the Debian package within an Ubuntu container and a Ubuntu container with the deb packages installed:

docker build -t ubuntu-librets:1.6.5 .

You can now use "ubuntu-librets" as a docker image with librets packages installed. You can also run the container to copy off the deb files from the container:

docker cp librets-packages:build/librets1_1.6.5-1realgo1_amd64.deb .
docker cp librets-packages:build/librets-dev_1.6.5-1realgo1_amd64.deb .
docker kill librets-packages```