A quick and dirty way to package Graphite using fpm and a custom target. Please read the instructions inside, it was never meant to be shared and is mostly tailored for my own needs. One of them being debian/Ubuntu. However fpm supports many, many other package managers so the script can be easily adopted. The resulting package does NOT contain …

builddeb-graphite.sh

#!/bin/bash

# A quick and dirty way to package Graphite using fpm and a custom target.
# (c) by Hynek Schlawack, MIT licence, USE AT OWN RISK.

# EXECUTE DIRECTLY ON A BUILDBOT -- IT USES REAL PATHS SINCE GRAPHITE IS PRICKY

# Necessary Ubuntu dependency for building: build-essential, libcairo-dev and
# fpm which isn't packaged unfortunately: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

###############################################################################
#
# CUSTOMIZE ME HERE
#

# Your destination directory where you want to keep your graphite installation.
# Should be cleared before running. I use a rm -rf for it but since nobody ever
# reads docs, I commented it out.
BUILD=/home/graphite

# Uncomment this AFTER you understood what and why it does
# rm -rf $BUILD

# The prefix to use for your package. If none, the package will be just called
# "graphite".
# PKG_PREFIX=

# Version of your finished graphite package.
VERSION=1

# Current Py2Cairo version, will be automatically fetched.
PYCAIROVERSION=1.10.0

# END OF CUSTOMIZATION
#
###############################################################################

pushd .

virtualenv $BUILD

cd $BUILD

. bin/activate

# Install all deps
pip install whisper Django django-tagging python-memcached uWSGI
pip install carbon --install-option="--prefix=$BUILD" --install-option="--install-lib=$BUILD/lib/python2.7/site-packages/"
pip install graphite-web --install-option="--prefix=$BUILD" --install-option="--install-lib=$BUILD/webapp"

# Py2Cairo is a bitch
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
wget http://www.cairographics.org/releases/py2cairo-$PYCAIROVERSION.tar.bz2
tar xf py2cairo-$PYCAIROVERSION.tar.bz2
cd py2cairo-$PYCAIROVERSION
./waf configure --prefix=$BUILD
./waf build
./waf install

cd ../..
rm -rf tmp

# kill superflous files
rm -rf examples conf/* webapp/graphite/local_settings.py.example

popd

# build the package
fpm -s dir -t deb -n ${PKG_PREFIX}graphite -v $VERSION -a all \
    -d memcached -d supervisor -d libcairo2 \
    --after-install postinst $BUILD

graphite-supervisord.conf

[program:carbon]
command=/home/graphite/bin/carbon-cache.py --debug start
user=graphite
directory=/home/graphite

[program:graphite-web]
command=/home/graphite/bin/uwsgi conf/uwsgi.ini
user=graphite
directory=/home/graphite

uwsgi.ini

[uwsgi]
vacuum = true
master = true
processes = 8
http = 127.0.0.1:8000
module = wsgi
buffer-size = 65536
chdir = /home/graphite/webapp/graphite
log-syslog = graphite-web
procname = graphite-web