[Server-devel] HOWTO.xs-custom

[Jerry Vonau]

Hi All:

With the recent acceptance of my port of the python's customization routine
over to TinyCore I'm attempting document the process and I need some help
with that. Here is what I have so far.




Build tinycore with --xo-custom, this will enable 4 optional routines

When booting the usbkey you will enter a chroot on the target XO and the
usbkey will be mounted at /media for all operations below.

1. You will be able to populate /bundles on the usbkey with activities,
they will automatically install.

2. If you provide /scripts/asroot you can run commands contained in the
file as the root user.

3. If you provide /scripts/asolpc you can run commands contained in the
file as the root user.

4. If you provide /scripts/yum.conf, /scripts/yum.cmd, and a configured yum
repo then yum gets executed with -y -c pointing to /scripts/yum.conf and
/scripts/yum.cmd as the arguments. The yum.conf file would use
file:///media/<path/to/repo>

Examples:

asroot:
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#!/bin/bash
cp /media/<file> /path/on/xo
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Central /etc/localtime
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asolpc:
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#!/bin/bash
cp /media/<file> ~/Documents/
sed -i -e '/replacethis/withthis/' /some/file

cat << EOF > ~/.i18n
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_ALL=en_AU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB.utf8:en_US.utf8
EOF
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yum.cmd:
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install xs-config-xo
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yum.conf:
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[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=1
debuglevel=2
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=0
plugins=0
installonly_limit=3

# disables /etc/yum.repos.d
reposdir=/tmp
# keep the log file
logfile=/home/olpc/.sugar/default/yum.log

#  This is the default, if you make this bigger yum won't see if the
metadata
# is newer on the remote and so you'll "gain" the bandwidth of not having to
# download the new metadata and "pay" for it by yum not having correct
# information.
#  It is esp. important, to have correct metadata, for distributions like
# Fedora which don't keep old packages around. If you don't like this
checking
# interupting your command line usage, it's much better to have something
# manually check the metadata once an hour (yum-updatesd will do this).
# metadata_expire=90m

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

[media.repo]
name=flash
baseurl=file:///media/xs-repo/armhfp/18/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=
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Happy Hacking




Any thoughts on how to improve this are welcome.

Jerry
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