scribefabfunction.py

def setup_scribe():
	# Tested on a fresh Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit server
	sudo('apt-get install python-dev libevent-1.4-2 libevent-dev ' +
	     'libboost-dev libtool build-essential automake libglib2.0-0 ' +
	     'libglib2.0-dev autoconf libboost-all-dev flex bison git')

	with settings(warn_only=True):
		run('rm -rf thrift')

	run('git clone https://github.com/apache/thrift.git')
	with cd('thrift'):
		# HEAD has some issues with pure thrift types (fb303 failed)
		# 0.6.0's bootstrap.sh seemed borked although my autoconf might
		# have been screwy because i was working on a borked ext4 partition
		# 0.5.0 is what the scribe docs mention anyway
		run('git checkout thrift-0.5.0')
		run('./bootstrap.sh')
		run('./configure')
		run('make')
		sudo('make install')
	with cd('thrift/contrib/fb303'):
		# fb303 defined an init.d style interface over thrift, which
		# scribe uses
		run('./bootstrap.sh')
		run('make')
		sudo('make install')

	with settings(warn_only=True):
		run('rm -rf scribe')

	# As of 4/14/2011 HEAD works fine
	run('git clone https://github.com/facebook/scribe.git')
	with cd('scribe'):
		run('./bootstrap.sh')
		run('make')
		sudo('make install')
	
	# None of these libraries seem to be aware of the transition to dist-packages
	sudo('cp -r /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/* /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/')