meta-package creation

[ubuntu_demon]

How do you create a meta package (like ubuntu-desktop) yourself in an easy way ?

[p!=f]

How do you create a meta package (like ubuntu-desktop) yourself in an easy way ?
First install the package you need...


sudo apt-get install equivs

... run the following command to create ubuntu-desktop file...


equivs-control ubuntu-desktop

... edit it and tweak to fit your needs and finally build it...


equivs-build ubuntu-desktop


This way I've created gaim-plugins metapackage on which depends all the plugins I have built.

Maybe there's more elegant way...

[Grishkin]

And you can create a package, witch depends on all the packages installed on your system:

Create a template configuration file:

equivs-control meta
Create a list of all packages installed on your system

aptitude search -F %p ~i | sed 's/$/,/' > packages.list
Open the file 'packages.list' in gedit or any other text editor and replace all space symbols (' ') to void strings and all '\n' symbols (new string) to ','. Save the file.
In any text editor open the file 'meta' from 1, add to it the contents of the file "packages.list" after the word "Depends:". Also change package name, version and description to appropriate.
Build the package

equivs-build meta
The package can be installed by

dpkg -i package_name

[sourjax]

Ok after you build the package then what?

How do you turn that into an installation disk or Live CD?