Friday, August 26, 2011

HOWTO: Generate a Debian Meta Package

The following is a brief tutorial on how to generate a Debian meta package. Just as a brief background for those that do not know what a meta package is - a meta package is a Debian package that basically tells the package manager to download a complete bunch of other packages. Meta packages are helpful for permitting for the quick installation of an entire group of packages. I use meta packages in the Bodhi repository for our theme pack and software bundles.

Fair warning for this tutorial I

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