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[Gnoppix-devel] Re: GNOPPIX maintenance
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Sven Herzberg |
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[Gnoppix-devel] Re: GNOPPIX maintenance |
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Sat, 01 Nov 2003 13:14:21 +0100 |
Moving this discussion into the public space
Am Sa, den 01.11.2003 schrieb Jean-Baptiste Quenot um 11:34:
> Sven, I perfectly agree with you. Andreas please consider that we
> cannot download an ISO every time you make a change, and proceed to
> reverse-engineering to find what files you modified.
>
> Here is my proposition:
>
> We all agree that the base system is Debian. Let's say every project
> member has a copy of Debian, for sure. What we need is the proper
> sequence of commands you typed to create Gnoppix from Debian: install
> some more packages, install custom files in /etc/skel, install a custom
> boot sequence for detecting hardware or a custom kernel, etc.
>
> We must be able to use some sort of scripts to automate the
> customization of Debian, to be able to reproduce the great work that you
> did on Gnoppix: config files, install scripts, build scripts, custom
> files, all of that should be available somewhere, at least to the
> project members.
>
> All the modifications you did to Debian should be documented and
> available. Everything you did to create a new release should be traced
> somewhere, preferably into a CVS repository.
>
> Then we will have an efficient project management. Please take this
> advice into consideration, try to merge and share your work with others
> because you know that when an OSS project is not well managed, some
> people take your work and fork a new project.
Well, this is an idea, but it's not very debian-ish. In my opinion we
should provide all the changes to the system in special gnoppix-specific
debian packages. If we do so, we can simply make an installation a
*real* Debian by removing these files.
An example:
Modifications to /etc/skel can be tracked easily by providing a
skeleton-gnoppix package.
If we add a Gnoppix-Menu to the GNOME Menu (like Debian does), we should
do this by patching gnome-panel and releasing as gnome-panel-gnoppix.
Regards,
Sven
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