custom debian packages?

mithereal · 09-11-2005, 06:25 PM

one could use debian-cd to make a custom debian install cd for the potato release does this work for sarge or is there a more efficent way now?

microsoft/linux · 09-12-2005, 10:10 PM

potato? that's like 2 stable releases ago...like 4 years, at least. Why would you want to do that?

archtoad6 · 09-13-2005, 08:22 AM

I don't think s/he wants to use Potato, but rather is asking if a feature of Potato is available in Sarge. Or, even better, that feature has been improved. Unfortunately, the Q was a bit ambiguous, but I think careful reading reveals the OP's intent.

Makes one wish that "RTFQ" was in use & 'R' stood for either "Read" or "Rephrase". We could have used a bit of both here.

yanik · 09-13-2005, 08:46 AM

Code:

nixbox:/home/yanik# apt-cache show debian-cd
Package: debian-cd
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 2568
Maintainer: Debian CD Group <debian-cd@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 2.2.23
Depends: perl, cpp, libdigest-md5-perl, sysutils, apt (>= 0.3.11.1), make, mkisofs | mkhybrid, lynx, grep-dctrl, apt-utils (>= 0.5.4), debootstrap, bc
Recommends: hfsutils, debianutils (>= 1.6), jigdo-file (>= 0.7.0)
Suggests: palo (>= 0.94), binutils-multiarch, netpbm, syslinux
Filename: pool/main/d/debian-cd/debian-cd_2.2.23_all.deb
Size: 640580
MD5sum: 3ebdfa7fe12ca78aa353988efa63560b
Description: Tools for building (Official) Debian CD set
 Debian-cd is the official tool for building Debian CD set since the potato
 release. It was formerly called YACS (for Yet Another CD Script).
 .
 Its goal is to facilitate the creation of customized Debian CD set.
Tag: suite::debian

seems to be the way, a little google search might help too, here is the first result
http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianCustomCD