Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution
Hi, upfront: Bernd's earlier reply on DSL is probably the best advice.
Just in case that there is some misunderstanding....
On Sunday 19 August 2007 19:55:26 icelinux@icelinux.net wrote:
> I have recently started a project to create a custom Debian
> distribution DebIce which provides a desktop with very low hardware
> requirements. I would appreciate any advice you could give me
> regarding the following:
>
> 1) Inclusion of software not currently available in the Debian package
> tree. I have discovered there is some software not present in Debian which
> is needed for my distribution. Some of this software is already
> packaged for Debian by others and some of it is not.
Would you be prepared to package the lacking software yourself for Debian?
Then please prepare ITP announements, RFP otherwise. The Debian Mentors FAQ
gives some direction in this issues
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html
> 2) Creating and maintaining a separate package repository to use for
> installation.
> I want to use the Debian packages whenever possible, however there
> will be some packages that will require configuration file changes.
> Also, as previously mentioned, some software is not available through
> the Debian package system. I currently think it would be best to use 2
> repositories for installation - my repository and the Debian
> repositories - to fulfill this purpose in order to avoid having to
> resign all of the packages and to make certain updates were available
> as soon as possible
Well, this makes sense to me. You can have a second repository from
which you can maintain Debian packages outside of Debian.
> 3) Any issue and problems you think I may encounter.
Look for Damn Small Linux. You can still fork from there.
Steffen
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