On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 at 09:35 -0700, Brian Hawkins wrote: > Over the next few months I need to put together my own linux distro > image. I guess I need to backup first. For school I'm creating a way > to perform differential bittorrent downloads. I want to use linux > distribution images as my test data. The idea is that if I have one > release of an image and I want to download the next, chances are they > are not entirely different. It would be really cool if I could then use > matching blocks from the previous image to complete the new image and > therefore shortening my time to download. > > With that said I need to build my own distribution image that I can > update with changes periodically and test against previous images. I > also need to change the way the compression is done when putting the > image together. The compression makes a big difference when trying to > find matching blocks in a previous image. > > So my requirements are: > I can build it on my Fedora Core 6 machine. > The packages update regularly so I can create new versions of the image > with changes. > I can modify the compression used when putting the image together. > > I have no idea where to start with accomplishing this, as I have never > put together a distribution before. I would appreciate anyone with > experience in this area. > > Thanks > Brian
It would mean giving up some control over exactly what composes the image (or fighting doubly hard to get it back), but check out jigdo-file and using it to generate debian testing/unstable images. I think you can also use jigdo for other distros including a roll-your-own, but I don't know anything about doing that. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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