I made a current-wheezy live-iso based on refracta (package list, custom theme, refracta scripts... ) to see what has changed and what could still be done in under 700MB. It is posted here:
http://exe-linux.fastfishwebsolutions.c ... ta/wheezy/It is a "clean build" using debbootstrap with everything else done manually in chroot, snapshot was not used (yet) on this one. It is 686MB
The original Refracta package list was adapted with some gnome stuff removed, a suitable kernel included and lib* removed in the hope that most of the needed ones would be installed as deps anyway. Then installed to the chroot like this:
- Code:
for i in $(cat package_list); do apt-get install --no-install-recommends $i; done
Then copied in the custom stuff to /usr/local/bin, /home/user, /usr/share before processing the chroot for a live-iso.
There were surprisingly few real difficulties. One was /home, some config file formats for xfce have changed. I got a new, working .config from the first boot then rebuilt the iso using that. Iceweasel configs didn't transfer well. I wanted to use lightdm, might be just me being in a rush but that didn't work properly, ended up with gdm3 instead (I don't like it)
Some other stuff is probably missing or doesn't work. I couldn't find a deb for deadbeef. I don't know how to do the refracta grub-splash. Locales might not be sorted properly. It is completely untested beyond that it boots and runs.
This is an experimental personal build only, not for "normal use". If anyone else wants to take a look and it helps towards a future refracta/wheezy version, particularly it's package list (is in the cd root), good. Or if anyone wants to check what is missing/broken and fix it with snapshot. I'm out of time to do much more with it just now.