Introducing dpkg-tools: Ubuntu and Debian package building for Rubygems and more
Something I found myself wrestling with a lot towards the end of my time at the BBC, and something I've been thinking a lot about since, is the deployment of entire servers, not just the deployment of software onto servers. I've spent nearly ten years working with Linux distributions and their OS package management systems, primarily Red Hat and Debian-based systems (Ubuntu, lately). I've also spent a lot of time working with Python and Ruby's OS-independent packaging systems (Distutils, a tiny bit of Setuptools, and Rubygems).