[arch-general] archiso rebuild

[Jonathan Vasquez]

On Jan 4, 2012 11:32 AM, "gt" <codered12 at 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.