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Re: [custom] Custom Debian Distros need the help from debian developers



On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 20:44, Sergio Talens-Oliag wrote:
> El Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:45:56AM +0100, Andreas Tille escribió:
> > > Would a general, CDD independent, framework for automatically creating
> > > such ISO/DVD images make sense? For example  there might be scripts on
> > > a server   which  take  care  of creating    and updating  such images
> > > according to the dependences of  the task packages  of a given CDD, or
> > > to some sort  of  rules defined inside  in  one of  its  task packages
> > > (e.g. debian-med-cd).
> > Yes this would definitely make sense and the problem can be split into
> > two flavours:
> >   1) A single CDD install CD for each CDD would be a nice thing to have.
> >      I think the debian-edu project (=Skolelinux) is much in an advance
> >      here.
> > 
> >      => We need tools to build such a CDD install CD
> 
>   Maybe the independent framework for building the install CDs makes
>   sense, but I think we should investigate the posibility of building an
>   official CD generator for Debian that includes support for this,
>   seeing the full Debian Distribution as the CDD that includes everything.
> 
>   Probably we can start by looking at debian-cd and looking at the
>   changes it needs to be able to build CDD installers.

Don't forget these (as possibly useful resources/ other developers)
(just dumped from my rescue-cd-tools file sorry, please ignore
non-applicables):

www.gnoppix.org
debix - http://debix.alioth.debian.org/
yard
debuild
pbuilder
make-kpkg/ kernel-package
grub
busybox
bootcd
cdbs
debian-cd



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