Re: [Dragora-users] Proposal: flexible script to create different images

[DustDFG]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 6:49 PM Matías Fonzo <selk@dragora.org> wrote:
>
> El 2022-06-02 09:29, DustDFG escribió:
> > Hello Matias!
> >
> > I apologize for coming back to this
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 7:00 PM Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> El 2022-04-27 04:12, DustDFG escribió:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> >> No, I was talking about to modify the output of packages by default
> >> >> (from Qi), but first I want to check if we can just include the
> >> >> packages
> >> >> in a ISO handling the category name in the packages, for e.g: all the
> >> >> @core.tlz packages for the ISO (CD 1).
> >> >
> >> > I think that if we don't worry about size of this iso image, it doesn't
> >> > look like
> >> > a problem because we can use 'find' utility. I still can't understand
> >> > what
> >> > you
> >> > mean. What does modification of packages by default means?
> >>
> >> The size of the ISO matters, since we have to create the images for
> >> several CDs, in 700mb maximum. To achieve this you have to adjust or
> >> change the output of the packages for the files containing the build
> >> orders. For example, the packages generated from 00-core.order would
> >> be
> >> installed to /var/cache/qi/packages/cd1/ with the rest continuing to
> >> wrap their output for the next CD number. So from stage 2 you can
> >> create
> >> the images for the CDs. It also gives the possibility of doing what
> >> you
> >> suggested before, once the packages are generated, they will be
> >> available in the packages/ directory, when chrooting in, Qi can be
> >> used
> >> to install directly, for example. the core from
> >> var/cache/qi/packages/cd1.
> >>
> >> Apart from this, my proposal is to create a rootfs, which you unpack
> >> directly, which is more direct and faster than having to install
> >> packages one by one via Qi.
> >>
> >
> > What do you think the rootfs must contain?
>
> The rootfs can contain whatever the final system produces, usually
> everything (packed in a tar.gz).
>
>

It will be a big file. Why not tarlz?

I also want to ask you about temporary system. Can we pack it like a
cross-compiler?