1. Forum
  2. AgoraNet
  3. AGN NIX

  • Help w/ making distro

    From thatonechap@46:1/104 to All on Mon Mar 16 17:33:30 2020
    I want to make a distro that is a modification of Arch. All I want from it is to come with a very specific set of software and to not receive updates from Arch. How would I go about this?

    I don't BBS much, but when I do, I have a question about something!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Black Flag <ACiD Telnet HQ> blackflagbbs.com (46:1/104)
  • From ryan@46:1/111 to thatonechap on Mon Mar 16 18:41:20 2020
    I want to make a distro that is a modification of Arch. All I want from
    it is to come with a very specific set of software and to not receive updates from Arch. How would I go about this?

    Can you go a level deeper on "not receive updates from Arch" ? That's a very non-secure distro :)

    I could help figure out a debian roll-your-own distro with something like debootstrap but haven't looked into arch before. Check out archlabslinux.com
    to see a custom built arch distro with an active forum. Maybe they can help.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: monterey bbs (46:1/111)
  • From thatonechap@46:1/104 to ryan on Tue Mar 17 16:31:09 2020
    I'd love to hear about making a roll-your-own debian distro, but what I meant was make a distro that modifies very little of Arch to the point that it uses the same package manager connected to the same servers, but when syncing the packages, does not attempt to update my distro as it would an Arch distro.
    I'm thinking that that's not possible and it would have to be conencted to different servers, but I just thought I'd ask :)

    I don't BBS much, but when I do, I have a question about something!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Black Flag <ACiD Telnet HQ> blackflagbbs.com (46:1/104)
  • From ryan@46:1/111 to thatonechap on Tue Mar 17 15:53:56 2020
    I'd love to hear about making a roll-your-own debian distro, but what I meant was make a distro that modifies very little of Arch to the point that it uses the same package manager connected to the same servers, but when syncing the packages, does not attempt to update my distro as it would an Arch distro. I'm thinking that that's not possible and it would have to be conencted to different servers, but I just thought I'd ask :)

    Why don't you want to update your distro? That's a security vulnerability.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: monterey bbs (46:1/111)
  • From thatonechap@46:1/104 to ryan on Thu Mar 19 10:38:51 2020
    it's not that i don't want to update it. i don't want it to receive updates that would turn it back from my distro into Arch.

    I don't BBS much, but when I do, I have a question about something!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Black Flag <ACiD Telnet HQ> blackflagbbs.com (46:1/104)
  • From ryan@46:1/111 to thatonechap on Thu Mar 19 08:48:15 2020
    it's not that i don't want to update it. i don't want it to receive updates that would turn it back from my distro into Arch.

    Gotcha. You wouldn't have to worry about that, all good!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/03/18 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: monterey bbs (46:1/111)