Re: Bug#513296: debian-science: Please add science-all meta-package
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Chris Walker wrote:
1. Simple but ugly solution: Just adding a task 'all' to the currently
existing tasks and add all meta packages just in the science source
package.
Unless the science metapackages will be uploaded again for lenny, this
is moot for the current release.
Yes. BTW - I plan an upload to experimental which builds against the
new blends-dev package (also in experimental). In principle there should
not much problems occure - but the additional metapackages are requiring
editing the override file so we will face a delay for the availability
anyway and I would like to make a "controled move" from all blends
metapackages at the same time and so I use experimental as "sandbox" for
this first. I also would like to wait for the Lenny release before
introducing massive changes.
Effect regarding package creation:
- Closes the bug. Should work so far for science. Has no effect
to other Blends (which might like to build Live-CDs as well).
I think that the automatic solution proposed below is better - but
that you should implement this as a temporary workaround until someone
gets around to implementing the better solution. This gets the problem
off Daniel's back and onto ours - and it is easier for us to do the
work too.
Well, I'm not fully convinced but if Daniel considers the problem as
really urgent I would consider a compromise. On the other hand a simple
$ ls tasks | awk '{ print "science-"$1 }'
science-astronomy
science-astronomy-dev
science-biology
science-chemistry
science-dataacquisition
science-electronics
science-engineering
science-engineering-dev
science-geography
science-imageanalysis
science-linguistics
science-mathematics
science-mathematics-dev
science-numericalcomputation
science-physics
science-robotics
science-statistics
science-typesetting
science-viewing
gives you all science metapackage names and if you include the
output in the live CD building config (or we base a very simple
script which provides the really needed form) a temporary solution
can be found as well.
Unless you plan to release a new version of the science packages in
time for lenny,
I would be really stupid if I would have such plans ... ;-))
then there is no immediate hurry, but we should bear
the pain rather than Daniel.
Sure. I would like to care for means that reduces Daniels pain
to a minimum. We should just decide which means are really reasonable.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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