Zenaan Harkness wrote:
[SNIP]
The same software likely is available for Debian too, but I
don't know if there are meta packages available too,
I've been wanting to understand meta-packages for a personal
project. Gives me one more assignment. If retirement isn't for
learning and expanding horizons, what good is it ;/
Recommended!
I found it easy, that was ~8 years ago, probably easier now.
Look at package equivs,
That approach for creating a meta-package has been suggested
before
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/09/thrd3.html#01172).
But http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html
seems to suggest to me that would not be the preferred tool. But
then again my Google searches haven't led me to anything else.
There *IS* a reason I do all my experiments on a physically
isolated machine. <GRIN>
followed by:
# Quick and dirty local packages repo: dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null |
gzip - > Packages.gz
I "knew" dpkg-scanpackages. But I could not recall its name. Thanks.
Good luck
Zenaan
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