[ppc] openoffice.org not present on alternate CD

[Onkar Shinde]

I installed Ubuntu Gutsy using Alternate CD yesterday on an iBook G4. This CD doesn't contain OpenOffice.org complete. So by default there is no office suite.

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

Can anyone please look into this issue? This is still present on Hardy Alpha 3.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Please don't patch ubuntu-meta directly. Changes need to be made to the seeds.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I think this is likely to cause the CDs to overflow. The alternate powerpc CD is currently 644MB, which I wouldn't expect to allow enough room for OOo.

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

As per my calculations the size for packages calc, writer, impress and their dependencies (which are not already included on CD) is approx 48 MB. So the final size would be approx 692 MB. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Is it possible to do a test build for alternate CD image by making these changes?

By the way, I was not aware that ubuntu-meta shouldn't be patched directly. Sorry for that.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

OK, I'll do a germinate run tomorrow and get accurate figures for this.

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

Any update on this?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

revno: 1278
committer: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
branch nick: ubuntu.hardy
timestamp: Tue 2008-04-22 14:09:36 +0100
message:
  restore OOo to desktop on powerpc (LP: #164491)

It's too late to upload ubuntu-meta now, so I think we'll just have to bank on task installation doing the right thing even with incomplete metapackages. This should work, but let me know if it goes wrong.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

ubuntu-meta (1.103) intrepid; urgency=low

  * update.cfg:
    - Switch to Intrepid.
    - Drop seed_map/* lines, which germinate-update-metapackage now knows
      how to compute by itself. (Requires germinate >= 0.42.)
    - Use ports archive for sparc.

  * Refreshed dependencies
  * Added alsa-base to mobile
  * Added libdbus-ocaml-dev to mobile-dev [amd64 i386 ia64 lpia powerpc
    sparc]
  * Added openoffice.org-calc to desktop-recommends [powerpc]
  * Added openoffice.org-gnome to desktop-recommends [powerpc]
  * Added openoffice.org-impress to desktop-recommends [powerpc]
  * Added openoffice.org-writer to desktop-recommends [powerpc]
  * Removed base-files from minimal
  * Removed base-passwd from minimal
  * Removed bash from minimal
  * Removed bsdutils from minimal
  * Removed coreutils from minimal
  * Removed dash from minimal
  * Removed debianutils from minimal
  * Removed diff from minimal
  * Removed dpkg from minimal
  * Removed e2fsprogs from minimal
  * Removed findutils from minimal
  * Removed grep from minimal
  * Removed gzip from minimal
  * Removed hostname from minimal
  * Removed login from minimal
  * Removed mktemp from minimal
  * Removed mount from minimal
  * Removed ncurses-base from minimal
  * Removed ncurses-bin from minimal
  * Removed perl-base from minimal
  * Removed python-minimal from minimal
  * Removed sed from minimal
  * Removed tar from minimal
  * Removed util-linux from minimal
  * Moved avahi-daemon to desktop-recommends

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:08:33 +0100