building unofficial xubuntu breezy CDs?

[Matt Price]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:06:13PM +0200, Jani Monoses wrote:
> Hi Daniel
> 
> >
> > Ok, are we making this our top priority over the next couple weeks? I
> >
> 
> I agree regarding priority but I personally will not be able to publish such
> a CD as my bandwidth is very limited (10-30KBytes/s)
> I hope I'll be able to test.
> I haven't done any custom ubuntu CD builds so far that's why I asked for
> help. I don't know which would be a better way
> of creating the CD: starting from an ubuntu one and adding/removing packages
> or replicating the build system at canonical
> and using archives/seeds etc.

having done a few small rebuilds I think using the ubuntu
seed/germinate method probably makes more sense than
package-by-package replacement -- the latter is rather painstaking an
difficult to automate.  

Unfortunately I'm not running ubuntu on any of my own systems right
now (!), and gemrinate won't install on debian/sid.  As I understand
it, one downloads the current seeds from
http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/seeds/breezy 
then modifies them and runs germinate (first feeding itt he right
parameters of course).  THen someohw one uses the germinate output to
generate a cd.  If it really works as automatically as is claimed,
then it should actually be quite a bit easier than modifying a ubuntu
cd by hand...

Matt

> 
> Jani



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