Unofficial Debian packages for Laurent Bercot's skaware software suites.

This repository contains build infrastructure for building Debian packages for skarnet.org software and dependencies (which, at this point in time, includes BearSSL).

Clone this git repository, and initialise submodules:

$ git clone https://github.com/s6-debs/s6-debs
$ cd s6-debs
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

The Makefiles in this repository use the sbuild(1) tool to build packages within a clean chroot environment, and dpkg-parsechangelog(1) for extracting versioning information of packages. This requires the dpkg-dev, sbuild, schroot, debootstrap and debhelper packages to be installed on the host build machine.

Once these packages are installed, a build chroot must be created for sbuild. This can be achieved by running a command similar to:

# sbuild-createchroot --include=debhelper,dh-exec,quilt,fakeroot,perl-openssl-defaults,lintian buster /srv/chroots/buster

Substitute buster for the Debian distribution for which you want to build the packages.

Note that the --include=... argument is optional, and is specified here in order to include a number of common build dependencies in the base chroot so that they are not redownloaded every time a package is built.

You may also provide the URL of a Debian mirror as a further argument, in which case, debootstrap will use that mirror instead of the default of http://deb.debian.org/debian, which may be desirable in order to use a geographically closer Debian mirror than the default.

You should then add your user to the sbuild group in order to permit them to run the sbuild command. More information can be found on the Debian wiki page for sbuild.

These packages can also be built by invoking debuild directly in each package's directory on the host system, though this does not automatically install dependencies nor guarantee a clean build environment, and is therefore not supported by the build Makefiles in this repository.

By default, the Makefiles will attempt to build packages for Debian Bullseye. If you wish to build for a different Debian release, then set the DIST variable on the make command line.

Invoking make will by default build the entire suite of packages, however individual packages may be specified as a make target, e.g. make skalibs to build skalibs for Bullseye, or make DIST=buster s6 to build s6 for Buster. The build artefacts can then be found in the generated build-out directory under the repository root.

If you wish to compile in your host environment without the use of sbuild, then you should change to the directory of the package you wish to build (e.g. cd skalibs), run make origtgz to generate a source tarball, then change into the submodule directory and run debuild.