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Custom Linux Distro Upgrade?
  • Corrosion
    Posts: 121
    I'm working on a custom debian based linux distro...

    I use remastersys, but I want to know how to I make a distro that when

    apt-get upgrade

    is used that it'll upgrade my custom distro and NOT upgrade it to the next version of ubuntu
  • Sh3llc0d3
    Posts: 1,910
    Hopefully this may be of some help, I think it's what you mean:

    If you want to do that you'll have to create your own repo's with upgraded software etc on a server for download. Otherwise if you use a bog standard iso (ubuntu) it'll have the standard repo's (repositories). The repo's are what the software as well as the distro use to update/upgrade
  • Xin
    Posts: 3,251
    Go to /etc/apt/sources.list

    Remove the standard Debian ones, it will probably be lenny or squeeze.

    Add your own

    You also have to register a key eg

    apt-key register something.asc


    Sorry for the vague instructions, ive done it before ages ago but i cant find the tutorial i found it off, but thats the basis for it.
    Xin
  • Corrosion
    Posts: 121
    I've seen a tutorial on making a source/repo

    My issue is.. if I do an apt-get dist-upgrade

    we'll....
    How in the world does it know what to do if it dosn't have access to the newest revision?
    ex: v1 has firesheep installed
    ex: v2 has firesheep with youtube script

    how would it know to grab that when you do a dist upgrade..

    It's just if I do multipule revisions and someone is using it as a desktop os, they will not wanna re-install their whole pc
  • Xin
    Posts: 3,251
    said:


    I've seen a tutorial on making a source/repo

    My issue is.. if I do an apt-get dist-upgrade

    we'll....
    How in the world does it know what to do if it dosn't have access to the newest revision?
    ex: v1 has firesheep installed
    ex: v2 has firesheep with youtube script

    how would it know to grab that when you do a dist upgrade..

    It's just if I do multipule revisions and someone is using it as a desktop os, they will not wanna re-install their whole pc



    Im pretty sure the dist-upgrade still reads from the sources.list im not sure though.
    Xin