Add a way for germinate-update-metapackage to recursively add packages from seeds specified in the "Task-Seeds:" field
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| germinate (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: germinate
germinate-
For example in linaro, one portion of the seed hierarchy is:
minimal (from plaform) -> linaro-headless -> linaro-x11-base -> linaro-xfce-base -> linaro-alip
(eg other parts are ... linaro-x11-base -> linaro-netbook-efl ... linaro-xfce-base -> linaro-xfce)
In this case linaro-alip wants to include all packages from all seeds in the hierarchy below it.
For things to work correctly right now, the linaro-alip seed has to have "Task-Seeds: linaro-xfce-base linaro-x11-base linaro-headless minimal", which means that linaro-alip has to know about the whole hierarchy explicitly. This makes it hard to maintain the seeds.
If there was a way to mark a seed as "recursively-added" then linaro-alip could just depend on a "recursively-added" linaro-xfce-base eg "Task-Seeds: *linaro-xfce-base"
| summary: |
- Add a way for germinate-update-metapackage to recursively adds packages - from seeds specified in "Task-Seeds:" field + Add a way for germinate-update-metapackage to recursively add packages + from seeds specified in the "Task-Seeds:" field |
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in germinate (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Triaged |
Acknowledged; but I wonder why you don't just use intermediate metapackages. This wasn't supposed to be an issue because I didn't envision that people would be attempting to use Task-Seeds all the way down the inheritance chain. For Ubuntu, an example looks like this:
required → minimal → standard → desktop-common → desktop
minimal declares Task-Seeds: required, and desktop declares Task-Seeds: desktop-common; we don't need to do more than that because there exist ubuntu-minimal, ubuntu-standard, and ubuntu-desktop metapackages. Task-Seeds was only meant to bridge the gap between seeds where it's worth building metapackages for them.