I think he was only asking about packaging a piece of software, not remastering a version of the distribution. I don't know how to do it myself, but this was the first reference I found. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide and the links it has like https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Packaging/Training On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:54 PM, John wrote: > >> I've been running ubuntu for awhile and I've compiled my own programs but >> I've never made my own package (deb file). I tried it once before on Fedora >> (rpm) years ago and it seemed to complicated. Can someone point me in the >> right direction on how to build my own packages? >> >> >> Freegeek rolled their own distro from Debian years ago, before Ubuntu made > it a useless pursuit. > > In the old days before Backtrack, Knoppix STD was remastrered with specific > drivers, etc (because it was distributed without network drivers as a way to > keep script kiddie abuse down), which is similar: > > Here's some good references: > > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/how-build-your-own-linux-distro > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7246 Knoppix > > > -- > Network Operations Center Engineer > Atjeu Hosting > > (503) 754-4452 > (623) 688-3392 > > http://www.it-clowns.com | http://www.obnosis.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson