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A draft proposal for Fedora spins

Posted Mar 6, 2008 11:18 UTC (Thu) by darwish07 (subscriber, #49520)
Parent article: A draft proposal for Fedora spins

I'm not experienced in rpm-based distributions, but do they have a `debootstrap' like system ?

Aka, can you build a fedora spin from a minimal base instead of beginning from the full
distribution then removing packages from it ?

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A draft proposal for Fedora spins

Posted Mar 6, 2008 12:29 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Yes, if you are building packages locally you can use mock

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock

Fedora build systems, plague and koji take advantage of this. 

Fedora has specialized tools for building a spin. These is livecd-tools for live images, ext3
images or software appliances and pungi for regular installation images and revisor which is a
graphical interface that does either.  Refer

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CustomSpins

There is also more detailed information on how livecd creator works at 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo