[Koha-oz] Koha and Cobber

[Michael .]

Hi Chris

I know about the Koha repository, that's where I pointed reprepro to, but
it is a little confusing with Squeeze, and squeeze-dev, apparently being
the major dists available.
I don't know how well Koha will work on Jessie so my intent was to build
packages for Jessie, unless there are packages for Jessie already there,
and that way anyone who uses Cobber will have at last 3, maybe 5 if Debian
do a Jessie LTS, years of use from day of Stable release which will most
likely be mid way through this year sometime.
As it is Squeeze LTS only has 1 more year to run and then support for
Squeeze is finished.

I also intend Cobbers repository to be a "1 stop shop" for packages outside
of the base Debian repository.
I am doing this because many people add multiple repositories added to
their sources.list (e.g. Liqourix, Aptosid, Siduction, Deb-Multimedia,
Mepis, Linux-Mint) and this creates problems with packages clashing.
My intent is to add specific packages, and their dependencies, to Cobbers
"community" repository. I hope to minimise package clashes by doing the
hard work before people add multiple clashing repositories to their
sources.list.

Cheers.

P.S. Sorry for the double up Chris, gmail replied to you only the first
time and not to the mailing list so I have resent it so others can read the
reply.

On 16 January 2015 at 06:49, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:

>
>
> On 9 January 2015 at 16:33, Michael . <keltoiboy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> This is my first post to this list so it is an introduction of myself and
>> my project (Cobber).
>>
>> A couple of years ago I created a Wordpress page about a project I had
>> just started called Cobber Linux (1) or Cobber for short. I started Cobber
>> as a way of teaching myself the finer details of Linux (more specifically
>> Debian). and after a short while decided I would make Cobber a Debian based
>> distribution specifically for Australasia. I taught myself how to use
>> Debian Live Build to create a Live CD/DVD/USB and was going to release
>> Cobber on a Wheezy base. Now that Debian Jessie is in Freeze I decided to
>> use Jessie as Cobber's first base for release.
>>
>> In the time since I first created the Wordpress page I have taught myself
>> webdesign, purchased a domain name "cobber-linux.org" (2), written a
>> website (still working on it in various ways) and have developed a
>> repository (3) which is undergoing a full rebuild over the next couple of
>> weeks, and translated into Australian English various open source projects
>> such as MATE, XFCE, Pidgin, and parts of XMBC.
>>
>> My desire for Cobber is for it to be a viable alternative to the MS
>> Windows/Apple duopoly currently seen in Australasia. I see no valid reason
>> for MS Windows and Apple to have market dominance for computer operating
>> systems in schools, libraries, government offices, business', and private
>> homes. I want to offer people in Australasia a viable option. It will be
>> released in 4 distinct versions (Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea,
>> and Pacific Islands) with the possibility of more if demand shows a need
>> with a variety of Desktop Environments.
>>
>> You may be wondering why I have told you all this. Well, I would like to
>> support Koha by providing Koha packages in Cobber's repository. I do not
>> know who to ask and when I found this mailing list I thought I would join
>> and ask here if it is ok or find out who I do need to ask. Just so you know
>> in the process of teaching myself Reprepro and sourceforge I have already
>> downloaded Koha (and other open source projects), created a repo on my
>> worksation, and uplaoded the repo to my sourceforge page. I will be pulling
>> the current repo down and recreating a new version on the same page.
>>
>> I hope to have a great working relationship with Koha and hope that in
>> some way Cobber may be able to help Koha spread in Australasia.
>>
>>
>> Hi Michael
>
> This sounds great.  I'd just point you at
> http://debian.koha-community.org/
> We already package Koha for .deb based distributions. So you can just add
> this repository to your sources list.
>
> Chris
>
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