Thanks for the replies everyone.
On Wed, 2019-07-03 at 20:10 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
Am Mi., 3. Juli 2019 um 16:47 Uhr schrieb Chris Lamb < chris.lamb@puri.sm>:
[...] These patches should canonically be in the source.puri.sm repositories:
https://source.puri.sm/pureos/packages
For example, here is a patch of mine to Gimp: https://source.puri.sm/pureos/packages/gimp/blob/10711bb1ccbf9be950445a6a6ba...
So one part of the set of things that is the 'delta' is the patches to packages in Gitlab (pureos/packages). I think this might be a candidate for policy. That is to say, I'd like to try to enforce our conventsion of keeping all the patches to packages we do in the Gitlab pureos/packages project. This will give us a sort of standardizedinterface to look for patches.
[…] as well as the fact that we do not have a non-free repo.
These parts of "negative space" are less obvious. Whilst you mention the absense of the non-free repository we also have removed other specific packages from "main". I am unsure how to canonically generate such a list from our archive software, but it is likely possible with some grep-dctrl foo and a quick refresher on set theory.
Or by looking at the list of intentionally not-synced packages: https://master.pureos.net/synchrotron/blacklist
This is also quite valuable.
In addition, there is the delta in unmodified packages that we have migrated from unstable, which additionally add to the delta from Debian buster. This could be a refinement othe programming task outlined in my previous paragraph if one was inclined to locate the exact answer.
Knowing the delta would help us to understand how to move the work being done on the L5 phone into our CD system for example
Can you elaborate on this, just out of interest? In particular, what is specific about the CD system that I am perhaps missing?
I would also be interested in that answer!
To be clear, by "CD" system I mean Continuous Delivery and by that I mean the specific instance of Laniakea we use. :-)
I'm trying to understand the time estimate for bringing in the set of packages and kernel that is being used and developed for the Librem 5 into Laniakea. This is, at least to me, essentially turning a subset of Debian into PureOS. I thought that if I could understand the delta it would help me with time estimation of this project.
I realize that those of us who've done the work on patches and synchronizing with Debian will be able to estimate the time better than I, so I'm just going to stop beating around the bush and ask; how long will it take to pull in the Librem 5 code into Laniakea?
This is a question that is being asked to me internally.
Additionally to all the delta opportunities mentioned by Chris, there is also a "built-in" difference by compiling packages differently on PureOS compared to Debian. That is for example the case for gnome-software and grub which compile with different settings depending on the OS they are built on.
So, finding the complete delta is a bit tricky, but definitely possible.
Is a reasonable hypothesis;
(Package set synched from Debian into Laniakea) => - (Blacklisted packages) - (non-free repos) - (Blacklisted packages) - (non-free repos) + (PureOS patches) + (PureOS compiler flags) --- = delta?
Regards,
Jeremiah