Boxer

Boxer is helper tool for "boxing" a Debian Pure Blend, e.g. putting together freedom-enabling, user-friendly services as a FreedomBox:

Some sample classes are included. They are easily extended, either with override files, scripts, or (preferrably) lists of packages and debconf answers tuning the install of those packages.

The goal of Boxer is to encourage reuse of customizations, and to ease (re)integration with Debian. Ideally override files and scripts are used only to speedup development, then integrated into official Debian packages, and the final product uses only package lists and debconf, a.k.a. a Debian Pure Blend!

Development

We use Alioth with a mailinglist.

Two implementations are in progress:

Older one, implemented in make (partly working):

git clone --recursive git://git.debian.org/boxer/boxer

Newer code, implemented in Perl (not yet working):

git clone git://git.debian.org/boxer/App-Boxer