We make use of Dispatches great Meteor Github Packages (mgp) package:

npm install --save mgp

Then, add the following command to your package.json scripts:

"mgp": "mgp"

Create a file named git-packages.json in your project root. Add a config for every (private) Meteor Github package that your project depends on:

{
  "my:yet-another-private-package": {
    "git": "[email protected]:my/private-packages.git",
    "branch": "dev"
  }
}

More information about how to configure your private packages can be found on the projects Github repo.

Append the following command to the Codeship setup commands:

meteor npm run mgp

Now, we need to give Codeship access to these private repositories. There is a Codeship documentation article describing this process in detail but here are the steps that you have to take for Github:

• Create a new Github account. A so called Machine user.
• Remove the deploy key from your repo under test. Here: https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/REPO_UNDER_TEST/settings/keys
• Grab the SSH public key from your codeship projects settings. Somewhere here: https://codeship.com/projects/PROJECT_NUMBER/configure
• Add this SSH public key to your machine user's SSH keys: https://github.com/settings/keys
• Give this machine user access to all your referenced repositories

It should be similar for BitBucket and others.