Mako Server Debian Packaging

This repo is for creating a Mako Server Debian source package that Linux maintainers can build on their own target architectures.

https://makoserver.net/

The package build is source based. All required source code must be included before Debian tools are run by running download-source-package.sh.

Prepare the source tree

Run:

chmod +x download-source-package.sh
./download-source-package.sh

This creates source-package/ with:

• BAS/
• BAS-Resources/
• LPeg/
• lua-protobuf/
• CBOR/
• SQLite amalgamation files in BAS/src/
• Debian packaging files in debian/

It also reads BAS/inc/HttpServer.h and uses BASLIB_VER_NO as the Debian upstream version. For example, #define BASLIB_VER_NO 5803 becomes package version 5803-1.

The script creates the matching upstream source tarball in the parent directory, for example:

mako-server_5803.orig.tar.gz

Do not run dpkg-buildpackage from this maintainer repo root. Run it from the generated source-package/ directory.

Build

From inside source-package/, install build dependencies and build using standard Debian tools:

sudo apt-get install build-essential devscripts debhelper zip
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

The package version is generated from BASLIB_VER_NO when download-source-package.sh copies the Debian metadata into source-package/.

The Debian build invokes:

make -C BAS -f mako.mk EPOLL=TRUE PYTHON=

PYTHON= is intentional. The upstream makefile generates a random NewEncryptionKey.h when Python is available, which makes package builds less reproducible.

The Debian rules also set MinifyMakoZip=no. This avoids the interactive BAS-Resources/build/mako.sh prompt about minifying JavaScript and CSS files and avoids adding Node/npm to the default package build path.

All commands

Copying and running the following should produce a deb package:

sudo apt-get install build-essential devscripts debhelper zip
git clone https://github.com/RealTimeLogic/Mako-Debian-Source-Package.git
cd Mako-Debian-Source-Package/
chmod +x download-source-package.sh
./download-source-package.sh
cd source-package
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

Install Layout

The binary package installs:

• /usr/bin/mako
• /usr/lib/mako-server/mako
• /usr/lib/mako-server/mako.zip

/usr/bin/mako is a wrapper. The real executable and mako.zip are installed together under /usr/lib/mako-server because the upstream runtime expects the zip payload to be in the executable directory.

Bundled Source Licenses

This package bundles upstream source code so Debian maintainers can build without network access. The bundled components use the following licenses:

• BAS: GPL-2.0-only. See BAS/LICENSE.
• BAS-Resources: same licensing terms as BAS. See BAS-Resources/LICENSE.
• LPeg: MIT-style Lua.org/PUC-Rio license. See LPeg/lpeg.html.
• lua-protobuf: MIT. See lua-protobuf/LICENSE.
• CBOR: LGPL-3.0-or-later. See CBOR/LICENSE and the LGPL3+ license field in CBOR/org.conman.cbor-1.4.0-1.rockspec.
• SQLite amalgamation: public domain / SQLite blessing. See the headers in BAS/src/sqlite3.c, BAS/src/sqlite3.h, and BAS/src/shell.c.