On Monday 03 November 2003 05:59 am, Galileo wrote:
> Would you be interested in writing a short howto for the rest of us
> who don't know how to do it ?
> I have been able to build a few isos on my own but I'm not really
> satisfied. I suppose that my main problem is that I don't understand
> conf files enough.
I dont use the conf files at all.
I grab the cooker at the time when it it is frozen for final pressing of the
cd's. If you watch warly will tell you when the branch.
then I copy the i586 tree myself. I add whatever i want onto my cd's from
contribs, plf, the club, texstar, updates, misc, and my own custom made
rpm's. I then run makecd with just the path to my i586 directory like so:
i586/misc/MakeCD --isodir iso -a i586
this leaves me with all my cd's in iso which will be right next to the i586
dir.
Now during the build whack the output. If anything is failing that you are
unsure about either rebuild the package and fix it or if you dont care about
that package then leave it alone.
To get my cooker tree I use fmirror. I know I have seen many here talk about
rsync but it simply does not interest me and fmirror more or less does the
same thing. I use fmirror to weed out the packages I dont want like others do
with rsync so I dont have to worry about even wasting my bandwidth on
packages I won't usually use. If I ever need them they are just a download
away.
When I get done (it may take a few runs with makecd to get everything the way
you want ) I have nice shiny new iso's.
When you get it just the way you want then goto Mandrake/base and edit
rpmsrate so that you get a higher chance of getting the rpm's installed
during autoinstall that you want. For instance I add a few kde themes in
there and audacity to the sound apps. Then I add bibletime to the kde apps.
After this step then make one last set of cd's and burn them and you are set.
Now whenever you need a new set of cd's jsut add the latest updates and
anything else you want and run makecd again.
One word to note here this will give you cd's that call themselves cooker
download edition but it will package any rpm's you have included untill they
are all packaged or rejected. In my case it was 5 cd's. With all of contribs,
international, emacs and all the games that are normaly in main and without
srpms you will get 9 cd's.
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