Chris Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note Debian-science and debian-live CCed on this. > > Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Chris Walker wrote: > > > Is it really as simple as adding the science metapackages[1] > > > to /usr/share/live-helper/lists? > > > > yes; and preferably you would send a file (like > > /usr/share/live-helper/lists/debian-science) that contains all the stuff > > you guys consider to be 'debian-science' so that we include it directly > > in live-helper. this way, you will be able to do > > > > lh_config -p debian-science [...] && lh_build > > > > in future. > > That's great. > > The whole of debian-science will be quite large (Quite how large I'm > not sure, but installing the packages I don't have on my system would > take 2.7 Gig.) I propose therefore to add science-astronomy, > science-biology, science-physics etc containing their respective > packages. > > I could then add a science-all package depending on them all. If it > won't fit on one DVD, then it is perhaps worth splitting it - perhaps > into a physical/biological set.
I've created a DVD image containing all the science metapackage packages along with gnome: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/live$ ls -l binary.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2131531776 2008-12-04 01:50 binary.iso Just over 2 Gigabytes[1] - so for a DVD image, it isn't necessary to split it. > > Does this make sense? > > Chris > > PS Some of the science tasks contain packages in contrib and non-free > (as suggests) which would probably need to be excluded if an official > iso was produced. > lh_build looks like it has excluded packages from contrib and non-free - which is probably the right thing to do. [1] The live image is on a compressed filesystem which. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
