Puredyne/How to broth

Five steps to produce your own customized Puredyne LiveCD:

Step 1: Required tools
If you're using a debian or ubuntu system, first make sure you have installed the development tools that will be used by broth:

sudo apt-get install live-build build-essential devscripts bzr

If you're running from puredyne then these are already installed.

Step 2: Get broth
Get Broth from Launchpad via bazaar:

This will download a folder called "broth" containing the latest version of the broth scripts and config files.

3.1. Changing the list of packages to be installed
In case you want to remove one of the main entries of the CUSTOM default recipe, edit the profile for the type of live media you are creating, in our case:

Each of these "#include" statements includes a separate file, in which desired package names are listed.

Since we wanted all of the above, we contine to edit only one of the included entries:

contains files and folders that will be directly added to the disk image. So, if you wanted there to be a folder  in the finished product, with a couple of data files in, you would create the folder   and put the data files into it.

Sometimes you want to add files not to a hard-coded path, but to the user's home folder. (For example this might be useful for changing a configuration file for the live user.) In many Linux distributions, this is done by adding files into, and they are then copied into the user's home folder when the user is created. So for example, if you wanted the user to have a file in their home folder called "orig.jpg", in broth you need to place it in.

Step 4: Let's cook
More or less this was the drill, the when you are happy just run:

and wait for a bit (aprox. 20-40min depending on you network connection to the repos). This phase takes a while, and outputs pages and pages of text info, because many packages are being installed to the live image.

(You'll normally be asked for your password at the start. That's OK.)

Step 5: Serve
When the process finishes you'll see something like:

The image will be waiting for you in:

Finally, burn your image to a CD or DVD and you are done! (You can use a program like k3b to burn .iso images)

Other customisations

 * Some cron jobs and scripts? Add to includes in:

Questions

 * when i ran broth for the first time, it took a good while to produce the image, such time lapse has not being significantly reduced after subsequent .iso builds, is there a way to make the process faster, like avoiding the download of packages that are already on the local?
 * You (or the local network admin) could set up a .deb cache server, but that's not particularly easy/quick to set up.
 * is there a way to modify the splash screen used by grub?
 * Yes. The easiest way is to replace