Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 09:52:42AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > I don't have anything like a design for how that should look in my head > though -- I guess interested parties should get together and come up > with a design _before_ we start trying to implement it :-) This sounds like you need

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-18 Thread Philip Hands
Andreas Tille writes: ... > As far as I understood Phil's last posting he is working on an enhanced > tasksel. Actually, what I've been working on is infrastructure to allow others to contribute to such an effort. I've recently enabled a CI pipeline in the tasksel master branch, so anyone

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steve, Am Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 11:33:38PM + schrieb Steve McIntyre: > Much as I hate to let you down, I think the best policy now is to be > honest (with myself and you!) and say that I'm not going to find time > to do this any time soon. Sorry. :-( No need to be sorry about this. I

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Andreas! Apologies for keeping you waiting here. For a range of reasons, I've been struggling to find *any* time to look at this. Much as I hate to let you down, I think the best policy now is to be honest (with myself and you!) and say that I'm not going to find time to do this any time

Constraints of tasksek (Was: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer)

2022-01-12 Thread Andreas Tille
Am Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 12:56:28PM +0100 schrieb Hendrik Sattler: > Well, entries like "Debian desktop environment" do not have a good > explanation in tasksel either. Unless you look at the apt information or the > debian wiki, there is not much for the user to find out about it. Gnome is >

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-12 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am 11. Januar 2022 09:24:28 MEZ schrieb Wouter Verhelst : >On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:51:45AM +, Seth Arnold wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 08:02:50PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >> > The only missing bit AFAIK is getting the step where tasksel gets >> > installed into the target system,

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:51:45AM +, Seth Arnold wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 08:02:50PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > The only missing bit AFAIK is getting the step where tasksel gets > > installed into the target system, and then run, to be able to grab the > > version of tasksel to

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-10 Thread Seth Arnold
On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 08:02:50PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > The only missing bit AFAIK is getting the step where tasksel gets > installed into the target system, and then run, to be able to grab the > version of tasksel to use from an alternative apt repository (which is > already being

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-10 Thread Sunil Mohan Adapa
On 1/10/22 11:24, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Phil, Am Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 08:02:50PM +0100 schrieb Philip Hands: Fixing that last bit is next on my TODO list. Once done, that should allow us to try things out rather more easily, and thus have a chance to demonstrate that they are ready for a

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-10 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Phil, Am Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 08:02:50PM +0100 schrieb Philip Hands: > Fixing that last bit is next on my TODO list. Once done, that should > allow us to try things out rather more easily, and thus have a chance to > demonstrate that they are ready for a wider audience. > > I'll follow up

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-10 Thread Philip Hands
Andreas Tille writes: > Hi Steve, > > a new release cycle has started. Do you think it is possible to > implement this long wanted feature for the next release? BTW I've got almost all of the bits in place to allow one to test this just by pushing repos on salsa. The only missing bit AFAIK is

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-10 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steve, a new release cycle has started. Do you think it is possible to implement this long wanted feature for the next release? Kind regards and happy new year Andreas. Am Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 04:53:48PM + schrieb Steve McIntyre: > Hey Andreas! > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2021-11-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steve, Am Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 04:53:48PM + schrieb Steve McIntyre: > > I've made a *small* amount of progress at hacking on debconf (route > #2). But again I've had other things come up, not least another round > of Secure Boot fixes. We're not going to have changes in for > Bullseye.

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2021-03-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Andreas! On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 02:46:52PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: >On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 10:23:19AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hey Andreas! I hope you're keeping well! >> >> On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 06:08:02PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >> >> (Overdue!) update: I've been hacking

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2021-03-03 Thread Paul Sutton
On 02/03/2021 13:46, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Steve, On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 10:23:19AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hey Andreas! I hope you're keeping well! On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 06:08:02PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: (Overdue!) update: I've been hacking on this for a while, and I hope

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2021-03-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steve, On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 10:23:19AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hey Andreas! I hope you're keeping well! > > On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 06:08:02PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > >> (Overdue!) update: I've been hacking on this for a while, and I hope > >> to have a prototype for testing

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2020-10-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steve, On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 10:23:19AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hey Andreas! I hope you're keeping well! Thanks, I'm perfectly fine. I hope you as well. > You must be > psychic - I just started picking things up again last weekend. Argh, now you have made my deepest secret public!

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2020-10-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Andreas! I hope you're keeping well! On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 06:08:02PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 07:16:11PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >Not yet, I'm afraid. A little too swamped so far, but you're near the >> >top of my TODO list. I'm hoping to get some time

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2020-10-08 Thread Sunil Mohan Adapa
On 06/10/20 9:08 am, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 07:16:11PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> Not yet, I'm afraid. A little too swamped so far, but you're near the >>> top of my TODO list. I'm hoping to get some time for development on >>> this in the next couple

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2020-10-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steve, On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 07:16:11PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Not yet, I'm afraid. A little too swamped so far, but you're near the > >top of my TODO list. I'm hoping to get some time for development on > >this in the next couple of months. > > (Overdue!) update: I've been hacking

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2020-03-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steve, On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 07:16:11PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Not yet, I'm afraid. A little too swamped so far, but you're near the > >top of my TODO list. I'm hoping to get some time for development on > >this in the next couple of months. > > (Overdue!) update: I've been hacking

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2020-03-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 04:23:08PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Hey Andreas! > >On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 08:23:39AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: >> >>the first alpha of the installer of Debian 11 is out. As we talked at >>DebConf about better Blends support: Is there anything we can test

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2020-01-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Andreas! On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 08:23:39AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > >the first alpha of the installer of Debian 11 is out. As we talked at >DebConf about better Blends support: Is there anything we can test >regarding tasksel? Not yet, I'm afraid. A little too swamped so far, but

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2019-12-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steve, the first alpha of the installer of Debian 11 is out. As we talked at DebConf about better Blends support: Is there anything we can test regarding tasksel? Kind regards Andreas. On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 10:32:28PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > somehow I've thought I

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2018-12-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, somehow I've thought I would have pinged about this one and I even somehow remember that Holger liked that I did so but I do not find and trace of this in my outbox nor the mailing list archive. So may be I have dreamed this. It would be a real dream if we could finally realise this 15 year

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2018-08-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Ole, On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 12:23:58PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > Filippo Rusconi writes: > > Also, when I installed debian-science and debichem last time, the process > > downloaded such an amount of software that it almost filled my disk (which > > I was > > not suspecting). Maybe, a

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2018-08-16 Thread Ole Streicher
Filippo Rusconi writes: > Also, when I installed debian-science and debichem last time, the process > downloaded such an amount of software that it almost filled my disk (which I > was > not suspecting). Maybe, a rough indication of the used disk space in front of > each blend might be useful,

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2018-08-16 Thread Filippo Rusconi
Greetings, Andreas, and everybody, On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:34:36AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, to give some status information about how we can make Blends more visible at installer stage: Holger Levsen, Phil Hands, Steve McIntyre and I had some discussion in DebCamp. The conclusion

Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2018-08-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, to give some status information about how we can make Blends more visible at installer stage: Holger Levsen, Phil Hands, Steve McIntyre and I had some discussion in DebCamp. The conclusion was that adding Blends to the installer tasksel menu would be perfectly possible if tasksel itself