On Jan 4, 2012 11:32 AM, "gt" <codered12@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

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I don't know how to rebuild the ISO, but for the meantime, you could back up your /var/cache/pacman/pkg dir, since that is where your packages are stored. I hope that helps from not having to redownload 500 MB again.

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.