Making small modifications and rebuild
Hi all, I'm building many times during these days and some questions came to my mind. I got that if I leave the cache directory between remastering LH will use those debs already downloaded. BUT if I just want to make small modifications and rebuild, like when you are refining the cd adding apps, making symlinks ...which is the best way to go? Normally I would delete .stage/binary* and do a lh_build again but maybe there is a better way? I'm following this steps: 1) Build a Lenny based (Sid won't go in X) and add custom apps (multimedia for artistx) changing user, hostname etc. Grub works, isolinux not (eltorito error) 2) Change default gnomekde splashscreens and wallpaper (everything is in chroot/usr/share/images) 3) Add Splashy from Unstable in chroot and change splashy background (chroot/etc/splashy/...) At this point I'm quite satisfied :-). Now I'm trying to find a way to customize gnome/kde appearance like in artistx 0.3 but somehow I cannot remember how I did. Are the instructions on the wiki still valid FAQ nr.13 on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/FAQ ?? I fon't get the point where I need to have a ./home/casper directory. My username will be artistx so why can't I put .kde and .kderc (and .gconfd .gnome2 ...) in chroot/etc/skel and be fine? Thanks to everybody on the list for this beautiful project and keep on the great work! Marco ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
Re: Making small modifications and rebuild
Marco Ghirlanda wrote: Hi all, I'm building many times during these days and some questions came to my mind. I got that if I leave the cache directory between remastering LH will use those debs already downloaded. BUT if I just want to make small modifications and rebuild, like when you are refining the cd adding apps, making symlinks ...which is the best way to go? Normally I would delete .stage/binary* and do a lh_build again but maybe there is a better way? I'm following this steps: 1) Build a Lenny based (Sid won't go in X) and add custom apps (multimedia for artistx) changing user, hostname etc. Grub works, isolinux not (eltorito error) 2) Change default gnomekde splashscreens and wallpaper (everything is in chroot/usr/share/images) 3) Add Splashy from Unstable in chroot and change splashy background (chroot/etc/splashy/...) At this point I'm quite satisfied :-). Now I'm trying to find a way to customize gnome/kde appearance like in artistx 0.3 but somehow I cannot remember how I did. Are the instructions on the wiki still valid FAQ nr.13 on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/FAQ ?? I fon't get the point where I need to have a ./home/casper directory. My username will be artistx so why can't I put .kde and .kderc (and .gconfd .gnome2 ...) in chroot/etc/skel and be fine? Thanks to everybody on the list for this beautiful project and keep on the great work! Marco Hi! One small thing: If you want to put in some additional files on your CD then please put them in config/chroot-local_includes. I.E. you want different /etc/skel then put the adjusted dir into [livecd]/config/chroot-local_includes/etc/skel. My usual way to rebuild CDs is to lh_clean first (careful! This deletes you chroot!!! But also .stages. It only keeps config and cache) and then to lh_build. To install new packages I add them to [livecd]/config/chroot (file) in the section LH_PACKAGES=emacs less mc ... You can also put some extra .deb files into [livecd]/config/chroot-local_packages so that they will be installed during the build. (Take care of the dependencies though ;-) ) I think that putting files into the chroot is not a clean way to build the CD. This way it takes (me) about 10-15 minutes for a new CD build but it is clean afterwards. Hope it helps a bit. Damian ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
Re: Making small modifications and rebuild
Damian Lubosch wrote: Marco Ghirlanda wrote: Hi all, I'm building many times during these days and some questions came to my mind. I got that if I leave the cache directory between remastering LH will use those debs already downloaded. BUT if I just want to make small modifications and rebuild, like when you are refining the cd adding apps, making symlinks ...which is the best way to go? Normally I would delete .stage/binary* and do a lh_build again but maybe there is a better way? I'm following this steps: 1) Build a Lenny based (Sid won't go in X) and add custom apps (multimedia for artistx) changing user, hostname etc. Grub works, isolinux not (eltorito error) 2) Change default gnomekde splashscreens and wallpaper (everything is in chroot/usr/share/images) 3) Add Splashy from Unstable in chroot and change splashy background (chroot/etc/splashy/...) At this point I'm quite satisfied :-). Now I'm trying to find a way to customize gnome/kde appearance like in artistx 0.3 but somehow I cannot remember how I did. Are the instructions on the wiki still valid FAQ nr.13 on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/FAQ ?? I fon't get the point where I need to have a ./home/casper directory. My username will be artistx so why can't I put .kde and .kderc (and .gconfd .gnome2 ...) in chroot/etc/skel and be fine? Thanks to everybody on the list for this beautiful project and keep on the great work! Marco Hi! One small thing: If you want to put in some additional files on your CD then please put them in config/chroot-local_includes. I.E. you want different /etc/skel then put the adjusted dir into [livecd]/config/chroot-local_includes/etc/skel. My usual way to rebuild CDs is to lh_clean first (careful! This deletes you chroot!!! But also .stages. It only keeps config and cache) and then to lh_build. To install new packages I add them to [livecd]/config/chroot (file) in the section LH_PACKAGES=emacs less mc ... You can also put some extra .deb files into [livecd]/config/chroot-local_packages so that they will be installed during the build. (Take care of the dependencies though ;-) ) I think that putting files into the chroot is not a clean way to build the CD. This way it takes (me) about 10-15 minutes for a new CD build but it is clean afterwards. Nice way, I'm trying it by NOW :-) I'll make another question which I' sure it has already been discussed but I didn't found it in the wiki. Groups. How to add my username to the netdev or other groups I may need to be included? I don't do it in the chroot because the user artistx is not present yet, in the configuration files there is no mention of groups and so? Thanks for the tips, Marco ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
