[arch-general] archiso rebuild

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 04.01.2012 17:32, schrieb gt:
> Hello folks
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to rebuild a custom live disc, using
> archiso, without having to download all the packages over again.
> 
> The problem is that after making a few changes to the configuration,
> mainly inside root-image directory, i want to rebuild the iso.
> 
> But, running build.sh says that everything is up-to-date. Alternatively,
> i tried removing the root squashfs file, and ran build.sh again. But, it
> started downloading ~500MB of packages all over again :(
> 
> I'll probably have to do some more fine tuning before finalising the
> iso, and i don't want this to repeat itself.
> 
> Please help.

In the official builds, the downloaded packages are always reused. I am
not intimitely familiar with the internals of archiso - you could
subscribe to the arch-releng list and post there, at least Gerardo reads
that list and will likely reply.

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