Re: packages.gz corrupt, missing packages and other issues

[David Stone <david@nnucomputerwhiz.com>]

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 08:19 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, David Stone wrote:
> 
> > You were so helpful with my last issue I thought I'd give you more
> > information about my project and some other issues I am having. What I
> > am doing is building a simple computer for the Senior Project.
> > Basically, it will be a computer that your Grandmother could use. I uses
> > the Matchbox project for a window manager and desktop and includes
> > custom versions of Epiphany, Sylpheed, Abiword and Gthumb. For the most
> > part it works very well and simple-cdd has been very easy to use and has
> > drastically reduced the amount of work I had to do.
> 
> Is there any reason to do this outside Debian or would you consider
> tp follow the path of Debian-Junior who is supporting "the other end
> of the age scale" ;-) _INSIDE_ Debian.  Your are asking on a list that
> is about doing customisations _inside_ Debian!
> 

Actually I was not planning on making it completely separate from
Debian. I'm sorry if I indicated that and I did not expect to start the
long responses about CDD. I would admit that CDD is rather ambiguous and
hope you will be able to find a better name. I would consider what I
have done so far to be a proof-of-concept more than anything. In its
current form it would be a nightmare to maintain so there is a distinct
advantage to having CDD included inside Debian. 

If I'm not mistaken to be a real CDD I would have to get my patches for
each application included upstream. Once this was done all the packages
would be included in Debian. From there I expect there is some procedure
for CDD to be made with metapackages or something like that so they
could be easily installed from any Debian installation. 

I would eventually like to do the work to make it a real CDD but since
there's only so much time in a semester I proved to be much faster to
create it outside of Debian for the time being. I would like some help
with the packages.gz error I keep getting.

Thanks,
David