Re: GNUmed / Debian-med Live CD
Am Sonntag 04 Oktober 2009 15:58:54 schrieb Sebastian Hilbert:
> Hi all,
>
My config to build a GNUmed Live CD on Debian Lenny with GNUmed packages from
Unstable is available from
http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/live-cd/developers/config10042009.tgz
Sebastian
> Andreas has bugged me several times to get the Live CD stuff into SVN. I
> would like to discuss a few issues fist.
>
> The stuff I currently have produces a Live CD for GNUmed based on Debian
> Live. I could check that in but it is of limited use for Debian Med as a
> whole.
>
> In my view what needs to be done is to define package lists that can be fed
> to Debian Live's lh_config.
>
> These might overlap Debian Med's metapackages
>
> http://live.debian.net/manual/html/packages.html#package-installation
>
> For GNUmed one would simply use 'lh_config --packages "gnumed-client gnumed
> server"'
>
> 1) A good start for a Live CD is the Debian Live Task 'xfce'. It could be
> coupled with a package list that holds metapackages.
>
> Another option would be to define a set of tasks like 'xfce-emr' or 'xfce-
> biology' or whatnot.
>
> What do you think ?
>
> 2) The menus for GRUB and syslinux get autogenerated. For GNUmed I have
> cutomized the syslinux menu to allow for localized startup (the locales are
> created depending on your kernel parameters ). Those need to be preseeded
> in 'foo/bar/config/templates/syslinux/common/menu.cfg'
>
> 3) not all packages are in Debian Stable /Lenny. So a custom sources.list
> and apt preferences file needs to be supplied to pick up various software
> packages from testing.
>
> In short three things need to be done:
> 1) create a number of package lists to supply to lh_config
> 2) supply a sources.list
> 3) customize the menu
>
> If you want I could supply a working configuration to start out with but
> for a Debian-Med Live CD my config is too specific and needs work.
>
> Let me know how you want me to proceed.
>
> Sebastian
>
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