meilix-metapackage

A sample metapackage for Meilix

Creating a metapackage

Creating a metapackage is really easy, we will make use of equivs to make our metapackage.

First, install equivs: sudo apt-get install equivs
Now run equivs: equivs-control ns-control
It will create a file called ns-control, open this file with your text editor.
Modify the file to your needs modifying the needy information.
Then run: equivs-build ns-control to build your metapackage, thats all simple and easy.
To add it to meilix follow adding a metapackage to meilix section.

List of basic items included while creating a metapackage

Changes will be made in the ns-control file which was created earlier.
Change the name of the ns-control file to control.
There are several lines of which required one are mention below:
Source and package is the name of the metapackage that we want to give.
Depends line consists of the packages that we want the metapackage should consistes of.
Description line consists a short description of the metapackages.
There are lots of other line which also matters depending upon the need of the metapackage. Go through here for more info.

Adding a Metapackage to meilix

Create a metapackage and place it in the root directory of the project
Add it to the build.sh file like sudo cp -v nameOfYourMeta-package.deb chroot in the 'copy source.list' line and dpkg -i nameOfYourMeta-package.deb lastly apt-get install -f.
Follow the syntax (writing style) used in the build.sh
Install reprepro if you don't have it, run: sudo apt-get install reprepro
Make sure you are on the meilix repository.
Run the following command for each meta-package you create: reprepro includedeb trusty ./nameOfYourMeta-package.deb

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