On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:46:53AM -0400, Jesus A. Dominguez S. wrote: > 2008/3/30, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Jesus A. Dominguez S. wrote: > > Well, I guess you are also tricked by the badly choosen name Custom > > Debian Distributions which sounds like it is about building something > > else than Debian. But it is the contrary: We try to enhance Debian > > internally to support special user groups. This is explained in > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/CustomDebian or in more detail > > http://people.debian.org/~tille/cdd/ > > > > So you might perhaps be a little bit more verbose about your customisation > > and it might be possible that your customisations might be intersting in > > this scope. > > I don't fully understand what you're saying, I build my own Debian > with simple-cdd, and I want to customize some things, from what I have > read, I thought that was the purpose of this list. No? help with > simple-cdd issues?
well, the issue is that "debian-custom" is really about making Debian customizable for a particular user base or purpose, by getting changes incorporated into Debian. building an installer CD with packages not in Debian is clearly more of a Debian Derived Distribution, even if the tool is named "simple-cdd". as a correlary, you can use the tool "debian-cd" to generate CDs other than Official Debian CDs. it is a philosophical distinction that often gets lost- Custom Debian Distributions are 100% Debian, all packages supported within the mirror, any installer customizations included on the Official Debian CDs, etc., whereas Debian Derived Distributions are N-99.99% Debian, possibly including their own packages and installer. one possible issue is that "simple-cdd" is possibly exclusively used to make unofficial debian-installer CDs that are not within Debian, and thus is maybe poorly named. I've hoped simple-cdd would be useful to official custom debian distributions, and thus have directed feedback to this list. if that is problematic, then i would like to figue out more appropriate channels for simple-cdd, or even consider renaming it. live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
