Regarding Moving packages from Universe section to main section

[Chandan M C]

Hi ,
  Then , How do you test that this package from debian works on your
development release ... for example Feisty... Now you dont have archive for
feisty .. How do you start building archive for feisty ..In what way you
build binary packages from debian source for fiesty ... How do you setup the
build environment for your developemnt release ... on which build
environment you will rebuild packages for fiesty..(Development release )


How do you ensure that all the packages you are putting in your main and
universe section will work fine over that release ..

Is it that all the pacakges in main .will install without the need of
dependency from universe ...
Is it hte same with universe ..i.e all the packages from the universe will
install without  the need of dependent pacakges from main component ...

Now I want to setup the archive for my first release ..How do I do that ..

Can you please tell me ..Where do I get MOM,motu-tools and germinat tools
..and also sync and merge tools ... and any others you are using for package
archiveing ... ans also how to work with that ..

Regards
Chandu




On 10/30/06, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:58:24AM +0530, Chandan M C wrote:
> >  Thanks for the reply ... can you please give me the procedure ubuntu is
> > fololwing to sync and merge the pacakges from debian ...
>
> Not really, no; merging is a huge effort by the whole development team.
> Working out what to sync and what to merge is basically just a big
> version number comparison.
>
> Seriously, if doing a version comparison to work out what to sync and
> what to merge is hard, then managing a distribution over the long term
> is going to be a very difficult task indeed.
>
> > How do I generate the seeds list ... How different seed list is
> generated in
> > Ubuntu ..
>
> The seeds are written by hand, not generated. Work out what packages you
> want to support and seed those.
>
> > May I know How Ubuntu setup the archive for their first release
> "warty"..
> > Was there all 4 components (main.universe,restricte,mutliverse) at that
> time
> > also ...
>
> Yes.
>
>   http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/warty/
>
> > How you synced and merged for the first release..as Ubuntu doesnt
> > had its own repo for its first release ...
>
> We had our own archive almost right from the start. The only "release"
> we ever made not from our own archive was the first test CD of Warty,
> which was only released to Canonical employees for testing. After that,
> we sucked in all source packages from Debian and started modifying them
> as necessary.
>
> > Other thing .. Is Ubuntu rebuilding all 15000 pacakges of Debian or
> directly
> > syncing binaries and source ...
>
> We only sync source, and always rebuild all binaries.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
>
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