[Hamara-devel] An update

abhijith abhijithb21 at openmailbox.org
Thu Jun 30 01:23:23 BST 2016



On Thursday 30 June 2016 12:35 AM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> On 25/06/16 03:38, abhijith wrote:
>> On Friday 24 June 2016 08:56 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
>>> >On 24/06/16 15:21, abhijith wrote:
>>>> >>I revisited hamara wiki howto notes on building iso and successfully
>>>> >>built one. I am now looking at making meta package using equivs.
>>> >Great - if you see any of the other mate distros you'll easily find
>>> the
>>> >package list required for mate.
>> I gave building the meta package a go yesterday. I created a control
>> file with help of equivs and edited it refering to the control file in
>> debian mate-desktop package. I added mate-menu(the advanced menu with
>> search facility) into dependencies. Then it was built using equivs-build
>> and installed in my chroot using gdebi. I am adding whatever was
>> displayed on terminal in a text file and the deb file as attachment.
>>> >
> Great - now fork the hamara meta package, remove lxde related packages
> and replace with the ones you have for mate.
>
> See hamara-sugam and hamara-sugam-recommended here:
> https://git.hamaralinux.org/hamara-developers/hamara-packages/blob/development-debian/hamara-packages/1.0/hamara-meta/debian/control
>
>
> We should then be able to build an iso that has mate as default.

Thank you! Maybe this time I should try Raju's repo while building the
ISO. What do you think?
>
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