Re: [Bio-linux-list] Bio-Linux 9
Hello Simon, hello Tony,
On 8/14/18 12:11 PM, Tony Travis wrote:
> On 13/08/18 14:31, Simon Wagstaff wrote:
>> Hi Will,
>> This is great news.
>>
>> Very much appreciate the effort you and Tony continue to put into the project.
>>
>> If I can help in any way please let me know.
> Hi, Simon.
>
> Thanks very much for your interest in Bio-Linux and your offer to help.
+1
> At present, Will is creating a meta-package for "bio-linux-desktop" with
> help from Andreas Tille and the Debian-Med team. Our plan is to migrate
> ALL the upstream bioinformatics packages present in Bio-Linux 8 to the
> versions packaged and maintained by the Debian-Med team and drop all the
> obsolete NERC/NERC repositories because we don't have access to them
> since Tim Booth left the project.
All the updates Tim had done over the years he already contributed to the
Debian Med repository. So we have most "modern bits". Some bits that we
miss is older stuff like from times when not everything was NGS.
Now, I see much educational value in them and e.g. for BioHacking
initiatives
these will be important to have. So, over time, we should collect these gems
before all the upstream web pages disappear.
> In any case, We have worked with the
> Debian-Med team for many years. I attended the Debian-Med 'Sprint' in
> Barcelona in February, where I put forward plans for Bio-Linux 9 to be
> based on Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 + a subset of .deb packages from "med-bio":
>
>> https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2018/DebianMed2018
> Please join the Debian-Med team if you want to help:
>> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed
We (that is mostly Andreas) has a https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM
"Mentoring of the Month" program that may help to get a grip on how that
packaging works.
Bio-Linux has always been good at presenting itself as a problem-solving
package. So, Tony et al. may also have ideas on tutorials or others bits
that may need an update. And yes, our Debian side should indeed learn
from that / support you more (same thing :o) ).
> I've CC'ed your message to the Bio-Linux mailing and Debian-Med lists in
> case anyone else wants to help create the "bio-linux-desktop" and
> "bio-linux-server" metapackages. So far, we've successfully remastered
> the Ubuntu-MATE iso with packages from Debian-Med using "customiser":
>> https://github.com/kamilion/customizer
> However, we've not yet managed to enable 'persistence' on a 'live' USB.
Hm. Hm. Hm. How was that again. I propose to have the Bio-Linux task
working and we can then address this on Debian Devel. We also need to think
about cloud setups.
Best,
Steffen
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