Remastering LiveDVD ( CD ) of PCLinuxOS

[alexvader]

Hi

This is my first post in this Forum...

I am a user of Arch, Slackware, and CentOS ( an rpm based distro, like PCLinuxOS )

I would like to know if one has to create installable packages out of applications and/or libraries which do not exist in the repos, built from source, and install them out of a local repo to be able to create a custom Live with "foreign" packages, or is it enough to just run the ./configure make install to have a snapshot of the Live Filesystem w/ new packages ported to the iso image to create...

Can someone give me a hint...?

BRGDS

Alex

[Dragynn]

Hi Alexvader,

If i'm understanding your question correctly, you just need to know if an outside package, once installed, will be included in a re-master?

If so, the answer is yes, I have done so, and there was no need to install it from the repo, I installed the Citrix Xenapp for my wife's work onto both my computer and hers manually, and have since done a re-master for backup, and the re-master is 100% functional with no extra steps required on my part. The MyliveCD utility works great, and is a breeze to do. For reference, here are Neal's instructions which I followed in making mine:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,74418.0.html

[Was_Just19]

Hi

This is my first post in this Forum...

I am a user of Arch, Slackware, and CentOS ( an rpm based distro, like PCLinuxOS )

I would like to know if one has to create installable packages out of applications and/or libraries which do not exist in the repos, built from source, and install them out of a local repo to be able to create a custom Live with "foreign" packages, or is it enough to just run the ./configure make install to have a snapshot of the Live Filesystem w/ new packages ported to the iso image to create...

Can someone give me a hint...?

BRGDS

Alex

You could use the standard
./configure
make
make install

but personally I prefer to do

./configure
make
checkinstall

Using Checkinstall will create an RPM of the application, so it is portable and reusable.

Much better IMO than using  make install .......  just another choice ...

PCLOS users are also encouraged to make a Package Suggest, should there be a package that is not in the repository, and one of the devs may build it for the PCLOS repository and general use.

regards.

[alexvader]

Hi Alexvader,

If i'm understanding your question correctly, you just need to know if an outside package, once installed, will be included in a re-master?

If so, the answer is yes, I have done so, and there was no need to install it from the repo, I installed the Citrix Xenapp for my wife's work onto both my computer and hers manually, and have since done a re-master for backup, and the re-master is 100% functional with no extra steps required on my part. The MyliveCD utility works great, and is a breeze to do. For reference, here are Neal's instructions which I followed in making mine:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,74418.0.html

Thanks

......
You could use the standard
./configure
make
make install

but personally I prefer to do

./configure
make
checkinstall

Using Checkinstall will create an RPM of the application, so it is portable and reusable.

Much better IMO than using  make install .......  just another choice ...

PCLOS users are also encouraged to make a Package Suggest, should there be a package that is not in the repository, and one of the devs may build it for the PCLOS repository and general use.

regards.

Thx a lot... 

Building some packages from source can be a bit daunting, like OpenCASCADE, OpenFOAM, Salome Platform,  or Paraview...
This is why having them in the repo will be extremely usefull

Thx a lot

[Was_Just19]

OpenCascade appears to be in the repository .......