On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Chris Walker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The use cases I'm envisaging are:
>
> A scientist wanting to try out all the cool Debian stuff before
> actually installing it on their PC (in which case perhaps including
> the ability to install would be useful too). Eg "W
Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Chris Walker wrote:
> > And this a patch for comment. I've only built the physics, chemistry
> > and astronomy DVDs as well as the science-all one.
>
> ah, you have everything in meta packages, that is kind of very neat, as
> you don't need to use ifde
Chris Walker wrote:
> And this a patch for comment. I've only built the physics, chemistry
> and astronomy DVDs as well as the science-all one.
ah, you have everything in meta packages, that is kind of very neat, as
you don't need to use ifdef at all in the packages lists then.
however, i would p
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:01:05PM +, Chris Walker wrote:
> 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
Chris Walker wrote:
> lh_build looks like it has excluded packages from contrib and non-free -
> which is probably the right thing to do.
unless you tell to explictly use contrib/non-free by calling lh_config
--categories 'main contrib non-free', it will not use anything from them.
however, in th
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 pref
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/
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 includ
There has been some interest in the past in a science live
DVD, and a USB key version would also presumably be useful.
Is it really as simple as adding the science metapackages[1]
to /usr/share/live-helper/lists?
I'm currently stuck on getting apt-get to use the packages mounted
