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copied!<p>I'd see it as two separate problems.</p> <ol> <li><p>You want a repeatable install/build system for your developers. </p></li> <li><p>You want an installer builder. </p></li> </ol> <p>Buildout (or pip, perhaps in combination with an extra script) can take care of the first problem. Basically: "how to get the project ready for development on a fresh laptop". Ideally you'd just say <code>python bootstrap.py;bin/buildout</code> and be ready (same with pip/virtualenv).</p> <p>Now that you have a repeatable build, you can use that as the basis for an installer. Handiest is a clean virtual machine that you use just for this purpose. Virtualbox/vagrant, for instance. Make scripts that set up the virtualbox and that install the proper dependencies in there.</p> <p>The installer builder script can then make a fresh checkout of your project inside the virtualbox and do the repeatable build thingy in the location where you want to have it in the installer (<code>/opt/yourproject</code>, for instance).</p> <p>Then use <a href="https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm" rel="nofollow">FPM</a> to make the actual package (.deb, .rpm, whatever). Pass in FPM options that tells it about the necessary dependencies, this way you can always be sure those dependencies are installed. (Note: these are OS-level dependencies like memcached or postgres; the python dependencies should be handled by pip or buildout).</p> <p>If you split up your big problem in these two smaller problems, both can be attacked separately.</p>

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