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Virtual LTSP server with vagrant and/or docker-scripts.
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Port ubuntu-edu packages to debian #3

Closed dashohoxha closed 6 years ago

dashohoxha commented 6 years ago

How to port these packages to Debian?

d78ui98 commented 6 years ago

I have created these packages for debian. Now looking into how can I upload them to debian. Maybe I have to use mentors.debian.net.

dashohoxha commented 6 years ago

I have created these packages for debian.

Add the code of these packages on the directory deb/, on the buster branch, so that they can be installed (inside the virtual machine) even without being uploaded to debian repositories.

dashohoxha commented 6 years ago

There must be a project called debian-edu or something like this (check these packages: apt list debian-edu-*). Maybe you can propose these packages for being included on this project.

d78ui98 commented 6 years ago

should we package binary or package source and then compile on host machine?

dashohoxha commented 6 years ago

should we package binary or package source and then compile on host machine?

I am not sure. But as far as I understand, you cannot make a binary package without making a source package first.

I have created these packages for debian.

You should know it better than me, since you have already created these packages. Just upload to the project the packages that you have created.

akash0x53 commented 6 years ago

As far as i understand:

We need to port mentioned packages available only for Ubuntu to Debian. Each package is bundle of few utilities. For example, ubuntu-edu-preschool, this package recommends list of packages mentioned here https://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/misc/ubuntu-edu-preschool

So if we look into the control file of any of this packages you find Recommends: where all recommended packages listed. 

Source: edubuntu-meta
Version: 14.03.2
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Edubuntu Developers <edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com>
Installed-Size: 45
Recommends: calibre, cantor, celestia-gnome, chemtool, dia-gnome, fritzing, inkscape, kalzium, kmplot, ktouch, kturtle, laby, lightspeed, lybniz, marble, melting, pencil, rocs, step, yorick
Section: metapackages
Priority: optional
Description: Tertiary Educational Application Bundle
 This package depends on all of the educational software for Tertiary grade
 level education that is fully supported by Canonical and the Edubuntu
 community.

So in this task @d78ui98 have to create such deb package which will install all these recommended utility. @dashohoxha Please correct me if i'm wrong.

dashohoxha commented 6 years ago

@akash0x53 your understanding is right. Thanks for the clarification because I am not so familiar with deb packages and I don't know how to explain it properly to @d78ui98

Only that the packages should be renamed to debian-edu-preschool etc. If all of the recommended packages are available in Debian repositories (and I believe they are), that's great. Otherwise the list of recommended packages should be customized to fit Debian. The Maintainer: should be updated as well.

Building these packages should be done from control files, inside the ltsp-server, since they are not available yet on Debian repositories. But efforts should be made to submit these packages on Debian repositories as well. As far as I understand, accepting new packages on Debian repositories may take some time. Deepanshu should find the right project for submitting these packages (I believe there are some projects about education in debian).

Also, if Deepanshu wishes, he may become a part of the Edubuntu community (although this is an Ubuntu community). As far as I know, the development and maintenance of the Edubuntu project has stopped, because the original developers are not able to support it anymore (life got into their way and they don't have much time anymore). They need help from new developers. But this is totally optional and will not influence in any way the evaluation of this GSoC project.

d78ui98 commented 6 years ago

okay, So I will do this -

Please correct me if I am missing something.

dashohoxha commented 6 years ago

Maybe you should start by studying and learning how to create debian packages. Otherwise you will be doing trial and error (or hit and miss), and the resulting packages may not be optimal.

I suggest that you place the code related to these packages on a separate script, for example called edu.sh, and include it (source it) from the main installation script.