Re: Bio-Linux

[William McCaffery <w.t.mccaffery@gmail.com>]

Hi Andreas,

As I understood it, the issue was that the virtual packages would 
install one of a group of packages that all have similar functionality, 
but none of these packages were available. I may have misunderstood what 
was going wrong. I have not tested how they will affect the task, they 
may not cause any issues.

Looking at the server task, I also had a quick question, although this 
may be obvious I just need a bit of a sanity check -- is the server task 
going to contain all of the desktop packages with the additional server 
packages, or is it only going to contain server packages?

Since I've based my tasks off of Tim's list, it doesn't have any why, 
remark or section entries, although I would like to carry some of these 
over in a future commit.

I would still like to do a check over before pushing to the repo. To 
clarify, when I said that wanted to produce a usable result I more meant 
that I wanted to avoid pushing an obvious mistake.

Thanks,

William


On 08/09/2018 14:29, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi William,
>
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 01:37:46PM +0100, William McCaffery wrote:
> > Hi Andreas,
> >
> > I'd like to work on them a bit more before pushing, as well as test that it
> > builds and produces a usable result.
> I do not think that this is a good strategy since you waste the chance to
> get helpful comments,  I'd strongly recommend to push and let me check.  So
> we can iterate to a sensible result way earlier.
>
> > I also have a question about virtual
> > packages, would these cause any issues with the package? Before the
> > bio-linux repo was created I had experimented with a meta-package, and had a
> > few issues with them. For example, at least one of them appears to no longer
> > have any normal packages attributed to it.
> I admit I do not understand the problem.  Please give a more detailed
> example.  And please, pretty please use the mailing list.  I will CC
> any non-private mail to the list since we are running an open project
> and there is no good reason for private discussion.
>   
> Thank you
>
>        Andreas.
>   
> > On 07/09/2018 20:45, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > Hi William,
> > >
> > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 02:36:20PM +0100, William McCaffery wrote:
> > > > I have made some progress in reformatting the bio-linux original package
> > > > list into the dekstop and server packages.
> > > Would you mind commiting these changes?
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > >
> > >       Andreas.