Version Control Distribution Modifications

[nhodges]

What is the best way to keep my changes made to my remastersys image under version control?

[fragadelic]

Not really sure what you are asking?

Are you making changes to the remastersys scripts or talking about changes you make to your individual remasters?

[nhodges]

Not really sure what you are asking?

Are you making changes to the remastersys scripts or talking about changes you make to your individual remasters?

Hey, thanks for the quick response!

I was referring to changes in my individual remasters. Can I just keep track of the ISOTMP directory? If so, how do I build that directory into a mountable ISO again?

[fragadelic]

I just use the date in the iso name.

You can check http://www.remastersys.com/downloads for 2 of my personal remasters.

Keeping ISOTMP would be fine but I find it easier just keeping the iso files themselves.

[nhodges]

I just use the date in the iso name.

You can check http://www.remastersys.com/downloads for 2 of my personal remasters.

Keeping ISOTMP would be fine but I find it easier just keeping the iso files themselves.

I want to be able to track the itemized changes though (added scripts, etc) via Git or SVN; I think I might keep both, that way there's always a ready to go ISO if I do roll back, but I can still keep track of the changes in an "automated" fashion. How does remastersys build the ISO from the ISOTMP dir?

[fragadelic]

For differences in ISO files you can use delta files.

As for your installed system changes you might want to run find with a timestamp of at least whatever you specify so it shows you changes since that time.

ISOTMP will only hold the actual iso tree so you won't really see any scripts or thigns like that as those would be contained in the filesystem.squashfs

[nhodges]

For differences in ISO files you can use delta files.

As for your installed system changes you might want to run find with a timestamp of at least whatever you specify so it shows you changes since that time.

ISOTMP will only hold the actual iso tree so you won't really see any scripts or thigns like that as those would be contained in the filesystem.squashfs

Cool, so I might as well just keep the ISO with a changelog then. Thanks for schooling me!

[fragadelic]

Yes.  The iso can simply be mounted and you can copy everything back into the ISOTMP folder from it if needed.  You can also mount the filesystem.squashfs but you can't make any changes to it.  You'd have to copy everything from the mount point of the squashfs file to another folder on your system, make your changes and then resquash it back into a new filesystem.squashfs.