Re: Easy install of a CDD in whole or in part using standard package admin tools
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> Debian-Med box might well be dedicated to the task from the very outset,
> whereas a Debian Jr. box may be created from a generic installation at a
> later date.
While you are right I also see Debian-Med meta packages as a tool to
set up a generic box for different medical purpose.
> The reason I think integration into the existing package
> admin tools is important is to accomodate for these different CDD
> needs. Some people will prefer to just stick in a CDD installation CD
> and configure a box for a particular purpose. Others will want to
> customize an existing box for a particular purpose after doing a generic
> install. We should aim to accomodate both groups of users.
Definitely.
> Tasks themselves are not regular Debian packages, but the modules
> contained within the task currently are. I had hoped we would
> eventually work around the inflexibility of using meta packages for the
> individual parts of a CDD by a multi-level task system (a task that has
BTW, at LinuxTag we discussed that the tasksel system should be multilevel
anyway to allow a proper preselection. This multilevel selection is
more or less state of the art in a modern install process.
> aren't). But since the tasksel maintainer seems to be moving away from
> that direction, I'm proposing we move on from this issue and see what we
> can do in the standard package admin tools.
Absolutely.
> As mentioned several times
> before, debtags are promising. If all parts of a task are tagged, and
> the package admin tools allow selection of the parts to install based on
> generic or more specific tags, that does away with the inflexibility of
> Depends. But thus far, I haven't seen any process documented for "how
> to use debtags to install a CDD in whole or in part". Perhaps now is
> the time to do that.
Time to fire up debtags-eidt ... ;-)
Kind regards
Andreas.
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