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Re: Redesign metapackage creation for Debian Blends



Hello Andreas


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
Hi Emmanouil,

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 01:26:28AM +0300, Emmanouil Kiagias wrote:
> I took a look into the existing perl code and I think the project got more
> clear now, I will try to describe it in a few simple words:
> The current the blend-gen-control  does an apt-get update and creates a
> package pool, from the apt-cache dump output, with all the available
> packages , then it loads the tasks files and finally generates a control
> file according to the available packages(it verifies if the the described
> dependencies in the tasks files exist in the package pool).

Yes, that's it.  (It also creates a tasksel control file, but that comes
similarly cheap as the debian/control file technically.)

> The new python design should create a package pool using information from
> UDD(get available packages' information similar to apt-cache dump's
> output). In that case it can create architecture dependent package
> pool(query packages' information for a specific architecture instead of
> using the architecture from where the blends-dev was called ) and so create
> architecture dependent metapackages.
>
> Is this approach correct?

Yes.

That's great
 
We should also try to achieve some kind of changelog entry creation
between the latest release and the current release that lists added
and removed packages per task.  This was requested by release team
and others.

Can you give me some more details on this subject in order to obtain a better understanding?
Thanks
 
Kind regards

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Emmanouil Kiagias


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