Re: Plans for Squeeze release and Alioth accounts.

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 06:40:06PM +0200, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> >   1. Turning the debian-live based live CD Sebastian Hilbert has prepared
> >      to provide GNUmed into a general Debian Med live CD and maintain the
> >      input files in our SVN.
> 
> This is fairly easy.

No doubt about this - but also easy work has to be done by somebody and I do
not want your valuable work wasted.

> Debian live expects a list of packages to install. I can 
> provide my config which can be stored in SVN but the config might get oudated 
> when debian-live changes over time.

I would be really happy if you might commit your changes also in the future
if you don't mind.  Do you have an alioth.debian.org account to enable you
commit rights?
 
> So the true approach is to use their cmd line arguments to pass options (which 
> results in a config file)
> 
> To make this feasible someone needs to compile a list of packages. This needs 
> to be turned into a package list. It is best to maintain that package list. 

In this case we probably want this package list and the command line with
the needed switched in our repository.  I would like to have it brain dead
easy and also safe to create a live CD.  We would really love to participate
in your experiences.

> One can even supply that one upstream so it is shiped by default. 

Sounds like an interesting idea as well.
 
> Let me know if you want my config files as a start or if you want to go down 
> the package list route.

I'd like to take the route you are considering easily maintainable and safe
to work nicely with future changes.

> I can try to assist if anyone wants to take it on. It is really less work than 
> one would expect. It can be automated to rebuild a CD once a new package is 
> released. There are even some ways to automate testing through qemu and a 
> video of the boot process.

Sounds great and I hope somebody takes this chance as a kickstart for his
option to help Debian Med.

Kind regards

      Andreas. 

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