Re: Blends integration into the Debian Installer
Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> writes:
>> All you basically need to to create a <blend>-all package that somehow
>> pulls all the packages you want to see in the default installation. If
>> one uses blends-dev, this can be done by using the "Install: true"
>> flag; however you are free to create the package on your own.
>
> Sorry, I still don't understand...
>
> Above you wrote "<blend>-all package" but in your other post in this
> thread you wrote "<blend>-all file".
<blend>-all is a package.
> If "file" was a typo, then does that mean that _any_ *.deb package in
> Debian in section "metapackages" with package name "*-all" will get
> included in the blends list in debian-installer?
There is no automatism. The <blends>-all files are all manually
mentioned in the debian-blends-tasks.desc file. If they are not
mentioned there (as currently for Debian-Parl), they don't get
included. That is the reason why I am asking for a patch.
> I can easily do that, but suspect I am missing some more constraints.
It is as easy as creating another metapackage. For the blends that use
blends-dev it will recommend other blend metapackages, but this is not a
requirement.
[from the other post]
> Where is that debian-blends-task.desc file that you ask me to update?
Its source is in the "blends" source package, which since the last
revision creates a "blends-tasks" binary package containing just this
one file (just 1:1 installation, no magic). So, here:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/blends/blends.git
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/blends/blends.git/tree/debian-blends-tasks.desc
> If it is part of the blends-dev source package, then could we please
> move that file to somewhere independent of our different build tools?
The source package of blends-dev is src:blends, which in my
understanding is a common framework for the blends files. The blends may
use it completely or leave out what they don't need/want, so
contributing to debian-blends-tasks.desc would not mean to accept the
other packages of this source package.
Your request seems a bit more emotional motivated than technical; I
would just ask you to have some pragmatic approach here. The
debian-blends-tasks.desc file is probably rarely edited, so I don't
think we need something more sophisticated here.
Best regards
Ole
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