Hi, I'm maintaining pgloader (https://github.com/dimitri/pgloader) and have picked Common Lisp for the version of it. Of course, I'm using a bunch of CL libs, and those are really easy to install in a Quicklisp development environment.
Now comes the time to package the application for debian (and others), and I'm looking into what it takes to be doing that. Apparently the best way to doing it would be to package each dependency not already in debian separately, then Depends: on them somehow. I've been reading the Common Lisp in Debian Manual at the following address and I've created a couple of packages modelled after cl-puri (which looked like the easier to duplicate): http://pkg-common-lisp.alioth.debian.org/clid/clid.html/ch-clc.html http://pgsql.tapoueh.org/cl-debian/ Now, I'm confused as to how to validate such a packaging. My reading of the manual is that using sbcl, I should be able to (require :package) once it's been provided with apt-get install. It's not the case here either for cl-puri or my own cl-drakma packages: Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.1 (wheezy) Release: 7.1 Codename: wheezy $ dpkg -l cl-puri cl-drakma ... ii cl-drakma 1.3.8-1 all Common Lisp HTTP client ii cl-puri 1.5.5-1 all Common Lisp Portable URI Library $ sbcl --eval '(require :puri)' ... debugger invoked on a SB-INT:EXTENSION-FAILURE in thread #<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {1002978E23}>: Don't know how to REQUIRE PURI. ... $ sbcl --eval '(require :drakma)' ... debugger invoked on a SB-INT:EXTENSION-FAILURE in thread #<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {1002978E33}>: Don't know how to REQUIRE DRAKMA. ... So, a couple of questions: - what is the best way to package pgloader in debian, where I want to ship a self-contained binary image (/usr/bin/pgloader)? - if I am to package about 20 CL libs, how do I make sure that they work the way they are supposed to be working? Regards, -- dim _______________________________________________ pkg-common-lisp-devel mailing list pkg-common-lisp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-common-lisp-devel
