Hi Andreas,
2014-03-06 17:19 GMT+08:00 Andreas Tille <[email protected]<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&[email protected]> >: > Hi Franklin, > Since the NTPC project last year [1] we got some feedback and would like > to > > build up a total solutions for computer classrooms in schools in Taiwan. > > Eric Sun, one of our partner, suggested me to study skolelinux > > (debian-edu). So I took several weeks and did some experiments with our > > partners. The performance was good, and we started to think about how to > > customizing it to fit our needs. > > > > We have a conference in April, so we hope to make a demo version before > the > > end of March so that we can show this to everyone in that conference. > > After contacting with some debian edu developers like Mike Gabriel, > Petter > > Reinholdsten, and Jonas Smedegaard, we decided to follow the example of > > itzks-system [2], that is, install debian-edu first then install some > > debian packages for customizing. I then think of that debian-ezgo, a > > debian blend by Andrew. Our target is very much like what debian-ezgo > > should do, so I asked Andrew if I can start debian-ezgo or not. He > agreed. > > > > So I studied itzks-system and read some documents like Debian Policy to > > study how to make debian packages. My plan is to generate several debian > > packages with one source: > > ezgo-common > > ezgo-menu > > ezgo-artwork > > ezgo-phet > > ... > > > > and maybe more. So I collect the files I need in the workaround folder > and > > prepare to generate debian packages, like what itzks-system did. > > > > I'm now using my own git repository to restore the working files. If I > can > > handle all these, I think I'll be able to integrate them into debian ezgo > > blends so that we can easily customizing any debian system into ezgo. > > > > Any help and guide will be very appreciated. > > Did you contacted Debian Edu people *on their list*? I'm reading also > the Debian Edu - may be I simply overlooked this. Now mainly on IRC channel. Thanks to Mike and Petter, they helped me a lot on IRC. > My (may be a bit to > short) advise would be to create packages of those things you need (and > what was perhaps inside the large commit as real Debian packages. I > really hope that meanwhile in the Debian Edu Alioth project might be > some room for Git packaging repositories to host the packaging stuff > properly (could somebody from Debian Edu please confirm). > > Once the packaging work is done you might adapt the ezgo-* metapackages > to include these. > > I'm not fully sure if my advise fits your plan. If not please be more > specific what you are missing in Debian Edu to make some EzGo out of it > and please excuse that some poor mind as me who is only trained with > ASCII characters (+ some Umlauts) has no idea about the specifics of > Asian fonts and character systems. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > They are what I'm planning to do too. Right now I'm still reading documents and look at itzks-system code to learn how to create debian packages, and maybe the most important part, how to install them without breaking a pure debian system, which I almost have no any idea. I also need to learn the "Debian way" for being a debian developer. I read some documents but still don't have enough ideas about the "Debian way". BTW, I'm also looking at debian-lan, though that part I was still stuck with installing failure. Regards, Franklin
