Re: Bio-Linux
On 06/08/18 11:12, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi William and Tony,
>
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 03:22:01PM +0100, William McCaffery wrote:
>> That sounds reasonable, especially if we want to keep them as discreet
>> projects. If Andreas would be willing to set this up that would be great.
>
> Please have a look at
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/blends-team/biolinux
>
> To have some content I have choosen a copy of med-bio for biolinux-desktop
> and med-bio-dev for biolinux-server which is definitely *not* sensible, but
> works as a test case. Please adapt the tasks (including the Description in
> the top) to your preference. Once you have something reasonable I'll setup
> the websentinel config to have tasks pages for BioLinux.
Hi, Andreas.
I've just had a look, but I see all packages set as 'Recommends' - How
do I configure them to be installed?
>> As far as I can tell from the Debian documentation and what we've discussed,
>> the complete set of Bio-Linux tasks would simply be Tim's original package
>> list, divided into desktop and server tasks. I would ask your preference on
>> whether we would use the reduced list I created which only has packages in
>> sid (although this has some issues with virtual packages) or the compete
>> set. I know that the documentation states the latter, but I don't know if
>> all of the packages are still useful to Bio-Linux. As for separating
>> Bio-Linux server and client packages, I can go through Tim's packages and
>> try and create a list of packages for a server task for review.
The main packages in the server metapackage are the Apache web server
and Galaxy, plus the x2go server. Neither of these are useful on a
'live' USB/DVD or minimal install on a low-spec PC.
> Please check all files for spelling issues etc. There is no point in
> manually editing debian/control or biolinux-tasks.desc since these are
> autogenerated. You get them by
>
> make dist
>
> Hope this helps over the first hurdle but keep on asking here. I'll be
> more responsive soon (just in the train back home from DebConf).
It helps a LOT!
> Thanks for the effort to merge BioLinux and Debian Med - I'm positive
> about a great and productive cooperation
Me too :-)
Tony.
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