[needs-packaging] remastersys

[SF007]

Remastersys is a simple tool to create a Live CD of Ubuntu, from an installed system.
This way users can easily create a CD/DVD of Ubuntu with all their favourite software and costumizations

website: http://www.remastersys.com
License: GNU GPL v. 2
Downloads: http://www.remastersys.com/ubuntu/pool/main/r/

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

I love that software, but as it already comes as a deb, and I don't see any tarball with the sources, it will be impossible to package.

So can you please provide a link to the sources, and I will be delighted to package it. Or write the author of this software to submit his packaging to REVU.
Thanks.

[Tony Brijeski (tb6517)]

Hi Fabrice,

I manually create the deb package using fakeroot and dpkg. I will put up my source tree this evening and provide a link to it.

I'd love to be able to create a true debian source package and if anyone can tell me how to do that I will do it immediately.

Its just scripts so there is no compilation required. Would the tree that I use to make the deb package manually be enough?

I'm new to deb packaging as I've been a long time Slackware guy but these days all I use is Ubuntu and variants which is why I wrote remastersys for it.
Regards,
Tony

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Hi Tony and welcome! :-)

You can find the packaging guide at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Contributing#Preparing%20New%20Packages (I'm sure it will be easy for you :-) )
Or you can find me in IRC, in the ubuntu-motu channel (No, I'm not a MOTU).

Anyway, when you will published your source, I'll have a look at the debian directory, and I'll send you some comments :-)

[Tony Brijeski (tb6517)]

Emanuele from the MOTU group has already contacted me about it as well. I'm going to email him the source as well as put it up on my repo.

Thanks

[Tony Brijeski (tb6517)]

I emailed the tree I build the deb file from manually to Emanuele just now.

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Hi,
How is this packaging doing? I'd love to have this app in Ubuntu!
Thanks,
Fabrice

[Tony Brijeski (tb6517)]

I have sent the tarball I have on but haven't heard anything back since.

If anyone can point to to a howto on creating a debian source package for a script, I'd be happy to set it up and then it would be ready.

Most of the source package stuff I have found related to making packages from binary source packages with Makefile's but I'm at a loss for creating something for a script.

I have all the relevant pieces so I'm sure it wouldn't be hard but I need some help or guidance in how to get there.

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Hi,
All you need to write is the rules file, that make everything, in you case, installing the script in the correct place.

You can have some help in the #ubuntu-motu irc channel. I'm there also :-)

[Tony Brijeski (tb6517)]

I finally was able to make a proper source package as I found a tutorial on how to do this with a script package. It was quite easy but getting started was the hard part - lol.

I emailed the source tarball and dsc file to Emanuele a few days ago when I finished with it.

It was of the newly released 2.0.11 version of remastersys.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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[penalvch (penalvch)]

Downloaded from website, as the main developer flaked out and is going to close down the website imminently.