Build an iso with all your deb favorite package and you personnal files in it. With dependencies.
## Concepts
Those scripts are intended to customise an existing debian installer iso.
The initial idea is to anticipate the end of i386 architecture ( bookworm is the last release to include this architecture ) and be able to reinstall i386 hosts in the future with the last existing release even in future (retroxxxx).
Those servers will no more have security fixes, so a local usage is recommanded.
Those servers will no more have security fixes, so a local/offline usage is recommanded.
The goals are :
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- suggested packages of a package
- suggestions from popcon
## Requirements
It doesn't need admin rights but apt should be configured properly.
If you want to include a package in contrib, contrib must be available in sources.list.
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Execute customize_iso.sh with the iso as argument.
- ask to include recommanded, suggested and popcon packages
- simulate an apt cache to integrate all dependencies
The custom iso include scripts to use local-apt-repository package after installation for a good apt experience.
The script download_myfiles.py may be used by itself if you provide the needed arguments.
You can add a preseed to automate the installation.
You can add a script to custom manually :
- add firmwares, add zips
- add scripts on the medium to automate post-installation ( add user, add files )
## Known bugs
The script **download_myfiles.py** use apt to search for dependencies. Dependencies is a complex subject, and some dependencies may give some problems : virtual packages and or_dependency.
To avoid them, don't ask for virtual packages.
And provide the or_dependency you want. But the script will continue to try to download **all** or_dependencies ...
You can refuse to install the recommanded/suggested packages you don't want or exclude them directly in the excluded file ... But yes it's a bug :( .
## Usage
You can give some arguments to the script (--help) but the most controlled usage is :