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

[Matias Fonzo]

Hello DustDFG,

Sorry for the delay.

El 2022-04-21 09:01, DustDFG escribió:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 7:37 AM Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org> wrote:
>
> > Can you clarify under which scenario(s)?.  I guess what you propose is
> > to enter the temporary system by entering `enter-chroot` and install 
> > the
> > packages instead of having to build the whole final system, right?.
>
> You are almost right. I wanted to say that when we have an instance of 
> qi
> and set of binary packages, we can install only part of the packages. 
> It
> will give us a filesystem representation of dragora but in this case we 
> can
> decide what we want see in the live image. So it means that we can 
> provide
> core dragora image. It also means that user can create custom image 
> with
> only necessary for the user packages. In this situation we have one 
> special
> case. If we will install all binary packages, we will get the whole 
> final
> system but it doesn't have much sense because when we follow 
> instructions
> from `CHEATSHEET.md` we compile all packages and install them so we get 
> the
> whole final system in this way (It can be useful for the user when user 
> has
> all binary packages and installed qi and wants to produce dvd iso 
> image).

That is possible, but to facilitate the task I think it will be better 
to organize the output of the packages using the category name, so we 
could easily know which packages belong to the category of 'core' by 
just looking into the directory name.  Especially, it would provide us 
with the selection for the ISOs split-ed in CDs...

(I'm going to look now at the Qi code to see if it is feasible to have 
the output using the name of the category).