base_box_essentials.md

Here is a list of things I would love to see on every box at wercker:

Packages

Most package managers depend on source version control software, and I frequently retrieve code from external locations next to in a build.

• git
• mercurial
• svn
• bzr

To build packages, the minimal requirement is often:

• build-essential
• libssl-dev
• libxslt-dev
• libxml2-dev

I don't think we should have many package in the bare minimum, but one package I see in almost all of my projects:

• readline

Configuration

Source controll packages configured with wercker user, e.q.:

git config --global user.email "pleasemailus@wercker.com"
git config --global user.name "wercker"

Header files

Especially in Ruby and Go projects I see my builds failing due missing header files. I am not sure if those headers should make it into the bare minimum, because it seems to be an infinitive list that depends on project context too much.

install-bare-minimum.sh

##
#  A shell script that install the bare minimum in an ubuntu environment
##

# Regular packages
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev build-essential \
                     libxslt-dev libxml2-dev -y

# git
if ! hash git 2>/dev/null ; then
    echo "Installing git"
    sudo apt-get install git -y
fi

# Bazaar
if ! hash bzr 2>/dev/null ; then
    echo "Installing bzr"
    sudo apt-get install bzr -y
fi

# Mercurial (hg)
if ! hash hg 2>/dev/null ; then
    echo "Installing mercurial"
    sudo apt-get install mercurial -y
fi

# Subversion
if ! hash svn 2>/dev/null ; then
    echo "Installing subversion"
    sudo apt-get install subversion -y
fi

# Configure git
print '[user]\n\temail = pleasemailus@wercker.com\n\tname = wercker' > $HOME/.gitconfig