So now you are ready building the chroot environment – then it is time to assemble the final ISO. To do this you need an overlay containing some configuration files for the bootloader. I packaged such an overlay for the current LessLinux Search and Rescue: lesslinux-search-and-rescue-uluru-20110202-155012-overlays-en.tar.bz2. You’ll find more recent overlays here: http://download.lesslinux.org/overlays/, but when […]

Besides the switch to SQLite there are other big changes regarding the build of stage02, which is the population of the chroot environment: LessLinux now supports tracking of dependencies after building packages. This allows to define the order of packages to build. As a consequence of the dependency tracking it is now also possible to […]

Many changes were added since my first description of how to build LessLinux. There are two major changes that are worth noting most: We switched from MySQL to SQLite3 as database during build LessLinux is self containing now, this means you can use LessLinux to build LessLinux to build LessLinux… The stage01 build of LessLinux […]