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 gnome&kde 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
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