Ciao on Debian/Ubuntu systems
Currently the .deb packages available for download are generated from the rpm using alien. This is not optimal and it fact doesn't work well.
Debian has a comprenhensive policy for packages, quite different from RedHat?'s one, so it makes sense to have native debian packages for Ciao.
Experimental packages
egallego has built a set of experimental Debian packages for Ciao. The packages should work completely out of the box. I mean, just after installing them both ciao and the emacs mode should work, without needing to touch any config file. (In some setups, your /usr/local/ installed Ciao will take preference against this one, which installs to /usr/bin)
Those packages have been in use for a long time and users are very happy!
Downloading and building
The debian packaging files live in a subversion repository in clip:
$ svn co svn+ssh://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/home/egallego/clip/repos/ciao-debian/
Then cd into the tools directory and create a debian source package:
$ cd ciao-debian/tools $ ./get_source.sh $PATH_TO_CIAO_SVN_CHECKOUT
Note that you need a svn checkout of ciao in order to do this. Now you should have a debian source package:
egallego@baal:~/fuentes/ciao/ciao-debian/debian/tools$ ls -l total 33848 drwxr-xr-x 13 egallego egallego 4096 oct 22 18:26 ciao-prolog-1.13+svn20091022 -rw-r--r-- 1 egallego egallego 234 oct 22 18:28 ciao-prolog_1.13+svn20091022-1.diff.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 egallego egallego 1122 oct 22 18:28 ciao-prolog_1.13+svn20091022-1.dsc -rw-r--r-- 1 egallego egallego 34590115 oct 22 18:28 ciao-prolog_1.13+svn20091022.orig.tar.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 egallego egallego 829 oct 22 18:28 get_source.sh
Building with cowbuilder [recommended]
A quick way to build the packages is using cowbuilder:
$ sudo cowbuilder --build ciao-prolog_1.13+svn20091022-1.dsc
You may need to do a cowbuilder --create first. You will get Ciao's Debian packages in /var/cache/pbuilder/result
Building without a chroot
If you want to build the packages directly from the sources you may use debuild:
$ cd $PACKAGE $ debuild
Note that you need Ciao's build dependencies installed.
There are no plans as of today of distributing compiled versions.
Features
- Multiarquitecture.
- Automatic building.
- Automatic setup of emacs modes.
- Integration of documentation within Debian.
- Debian Policy compliant.
Upstream showstopper bugs
This is a list of bugs that preclude Ciao from being distributed with Debian/Ubuntu.
