Re: Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:46:14AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > Hi Alex! > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:20:12 +0100, Alex Samad wrote: > > I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey > > why not build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and > > the correspond

Re: Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 07:55:00AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Alex Samad wrote: > >>> Yes, I'm doing this for years. I ended up with binary packages >>> andreas-base, andreas-nox, andreas-x and andreas-laptop on my >>> local mirror and these packages will be installed on ne

Re: Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Luca Capello wrote: http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2007/11/14#2007-11-14-hacking-equivs Well, if you really want a system to create your meta packages you could either use equivs or cdd-dev. AJ is right here that you add a little bit more complexity to the system, bu

Re: Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-23 Thread Luca Capello
Hi Alex! On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:20:12 +0100, Alex Samad wrote: > I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey > why not build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and > the corresponding configuration files. Not that I'm an expert on it, but it seems that

Re: Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-22 Thread Jérôme Warnier
Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why not build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and the corresponding configuration files. I am guessing this has been thought of before but haven't seen anything for it, so I thought I

Re: Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Alex Samad wrote: Yes, I'm doing this for years. I ended up with binary packages andreas-base, andreas-nox, andreas-x and andreas-laptop on my local mirror and these packages will be installed on new boxes. sounds like where I am going Yes (according to the explanation i

Re: Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 07:11:31AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Alex Samad wrote: >> Any one else done this, > > Yes, I'm doing this for years. I ended up with binary packages > andreas-base, andreas-nox, andreas-x and andreas-laptop on my > local mirror and these packages wi

Re: Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 05:55:31PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:20:12AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why > > not > > build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and the

Re: Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Alex Samad wrote: Any one else done this, Yes, I'm doing this for years. I ended up with binary packages andreas-base, andreas-nox, andreas-x and andreas-laptop on my local mirror and these packages will be installed on new boxes. what hurdles might I face ? I did not

Re: Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:20:12AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why not > build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and the > corresponding configuration files. > > I am guessing this has been thought of b

Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why not build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and the corresponding configuration files. I am guessing this has been thought of before but haven't seen anything for it, so I thought I would come to the l