Jean-Baptiste Faure, 22-12-2008 16:41:
Le 22.12.2008 20:15, Caio Tiago Oliveira a écrit :
First of all, I think "relea...@ooo" is the right place to discuss
this, as we don't make release engineering.
I assumed that installation difficulties for new Ubuntu users was a QA
issue.
Well... we assure things works as expected. Who decide what we should
distribute officially is the Release Engineering team.
A change is a request for enhancement. We can discuss, we can't triage,
but we can't change it ourselves.
The issue here is not about one or more files to download.
The file we download from OOo site is a compressed file with a set of
files inside it.
To install OOo on Debian based distros, the user have to:
- open a terminal
- type:
sudo dpkg -i DEBS/*.deb
you can't actually do that on the graphical interface due to
dependency issues.
He asked for a metapackage which depends on others.
Well... that's valid for repositories using APT, but is not much
useful for deb packages.
You would click the metapackage and it would just show "unsatisfied
dependencies".
It won't look for the packages on the current folder and install them.
Argh :-( I was not aware of such subtleties.
A shell script could do that, though.
There is a shell script "update" but what it does is not clear for me
and I never used it, so I am not able to recommend to use it.
The only thing I understood is that this script install all packages
without checking dependencies. I don't like that.
That script calls:
dpkg --install --selected-only --recursive "$BASEDIR"/DEBS
it will just install the deb versions contained on the file of the
already installed packages (update).
It won't make a fresh install.
Also, it will check for dependencies, as it is not passing any "--force"
option to dpkg.
A script which:
- install all components by default
- you can use "--no-[component]" or "--without-[component]" to not
install one component
- you can use "--minimal" and combine with "--with-[component]"
- you can use "--with-desktop-integration" and variations like:
"--with-desktop-integration=gnome", etc.
- allow the use of "gksu/kdesu or via su command in a terminal
emulator", just like that update script does.
would be great.
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