On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 13:59 -0800, M. Edward Borasky wrote: > Maybe if I tell you what I'm trying to build, this will make more sense. > I'm trying to build a LiveCD that comes up with Gentoo Linux the same > way Knoppix and Knoppix derivatives come up with Debian, mostly testing > but some unstable. The closest analogy to what I'm trying to do is > Quantian. That's a remaster of clusterKnoppix with some things deleted > and a plethora of mathematical, scientific, visualization and > computational finance packages added. Like most Knoppix derivatives, if > you like it, you can install it to hard disk and keep it current using > the Debian apt tools. > > I got the impression from some other posts that Gentoo is heading in > exactly this direction, and my assumption is that your release > engineering tools will do this sometime in the not too distant future. > My only problem is that I want to do it today. :)
Well, none of our tools can do this today. For you to accomplish this, it will require quite a lot of manual work. > So maybe what I should be working on is shell or Perl scripts (Python is > not one of my strong languages) for remastering an i686 Gentoo Release > Media set, and a script to do a hard disk install. All that's missing > from that is a dozen or so application packages and a desktop, and > there's a lot of the GRP that I don't need. Considering you could use catalyst to add the packages and remove packages, that part, at least, is covered by our tools. Installing the desktop stuff can also be done via catalyst. Configuring it, though , would pretty much leave you on your own, at least for now. > All I need is the i686 pre-compiled binaries for the packages used and a > stage3 tarball, although the gcc in the stage3 would need to have at > least Fortran and preferably all languages enabled. At some point, of > course, I have to make the hard decisions about what to leave out to get > a 700 MB result. Quantian took the coward's way out and switched to > LiveDVDs. :) Well, considering this, you would need to remaster your CD anyway to get the packages with the right USE flags. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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