Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> writes: >> All you basically need to to create a <blend>-all package that somehow >> pulls all the packages you want to see in the default installation. If >> one uses blends-dev, this can be done by using the "Install: true" >> flag; however you are free to create the package on your own. > > Sorry, I still don't understand... > > Above you wrote "<blend>-all package" but in your other post in this > thread you wrote "<blend>-all file".
<blend>-all is a package. > If "file" was a typo, then does that mean that _any_ *.deb package in > Debian in section "metapackages" with package name "*-all" will get > included in the blends list in debian-installer? There is no automatism. The <blends>-all files are all manually mentioned in the debian-blends-tasks.desc file. If they are not mentioned there (as currently for Debian-Parl), they don't get included. That is the reason why I am asking for a patch. > I can easily do that, but suspect I am missing some more constraints. It is as easy as creating another metapackage. For the blends that use blends-dev it will recommend other blend metapackages, but this is not a requirement. [from the other post] > Where is that debian-blends-task.desc file that you ask me to update? Its source is in the "blends" source package, which since the last revision creates a "blends-tasks" binary package containing just this one file (just 1:1 installation, no magic). So, here: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/blends/blends.git https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/blends/blends.git/tree/debian-blends-tasks.desc > If it is part of the blends-dev source package, then could we please > move that file to somewhere independent of our different build tools? The source package of blends-dev is src:blends, which in my understanding is a common framework for the blends files. The blends may use it completely or leave out what they don't need/want, so contributing to debian-blends-tasks.desc would not mean to accept the other packages of this source package. Your request seems a bit more emotional motivated than technical; I would just ask you to have some pragmatic approach here. The debian-blends-tasks.desc file is probably rarely edited, so I don't think we need something more sophisticated here. Best regards Ole
