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{{Message|'''Latest news''':

'''23 September 2012''': I've updated editliveos.py with bug fixes and simplifications. Run it in from a folder with these files:

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~~http~~://~~cgit~~.sugarlabs.org/~FGrose/soas/sugar-clone-extensions~~.git~~/~~tree~~/editliveos

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https://git.sugarlabs.org/~FGrose/soas/sugar-clone-extensions/trees/master/editliveos

There is also a new Bash script, LiveOS-merge, for merging a LiveOS snapshot and refreshing an installation with the new image. (A new

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* With edit-liveos (disk-to-iso), a nearly-consumed overlay can be refreshed by rebuilding the system into a new, SquashFS image that re[[wikipedia:Sparse_file|sparse]]s the system files and repackages them into an iso installation file for reuse or distribution.

====editliveos.help====

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Below is the output of editliveos --help in a working version from ~~17 June 2012~~.

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Below is the output of editliveos --help in a working version from 25 January 2013.

{{Show|'''editliveos.py --help'''|<pre>Usage:

editliveos.py: [options] <LiveOS_source>

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[-N, --noshell]

[-t, --tmpdir <tmpdir>]

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[-T, --leave-tmpfiles]

[-y, --yumcache <cachedir>]

[-e, --exclude <exclude, s>]

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Temporary directory to use for staging the build.

(default: /var/tmp)

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-T, --leave-tmpfiles Skip deletion of temporary files and directories and

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unmounting of the edited image.

-y CACHEDIR, --yumcache=CACHEDIR

Directory to use for for the yum cache. default: None

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Specifies a new size of NN MiB for the overlay (or

changing the size by a difference of +NN or -NN MiB,

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if a ~~sign~~ is prefixed). If NN = 0 (or nets to <= 0),

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if a size is prefixed). If NN = 0 (or nets to <= 0),

no change will be made.

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--refresh-only Specify replacing the squashfs.img or ~~ext3fs.img~~ of

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--refresh-only Specify replacing the squashfs.img or rootfs_img of

the source LiveOS installation instance with such

files from the new build, and resetting any overlay.

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Specify the compression type for SquashFS. Will

override the current compression or lack thereof.

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--compress Specify compression of the filesystem ~~image,~~

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--compress Specify compression for the filesystem imageUsed when

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~~ext3fs.img. Used when~~ overriding an uncompressed

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overriding an uncompressed source.

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source.

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--skip-compression Specify building the .iso with an uncompressed root

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--skip-compression Specify building the .iso with an uncompressed

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file system.

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~~ext3fs.img~~ file system.

--refresh-uncompressed

Specify refreshing the source with an uncompressed

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~~ext3fs~~.~~img~~

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root file system.

--skip-minimize Specify no osmin.img minimal snapshot.

-a KERNELARGS, --extra-kernel-args=KERNELARGS

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The script code is below:

{{Iframe

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|~~http~~://git.sugarlabs.org/~FGrose/soas/sugar-clone-extensions/blobs/master/~~sugar-clone~~/~~edit-liveos~~.py

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|https://git.sugarlabs.org/~FGrose/soas/sugar-clone-extensions/blobs/master/editliveos/editliveos.py

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|~~http~~://git.sugarlabs.org/~FGrose/soas/sugar-clone-extensions/blobs/master/~~sugar-clone~~/~~edit-liveos~~.py#line4|800|600|1}}

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|https://git.sugarlabs.org/~FGrose/soas/sugar-clone-extensions/blobs/master/editliveos/editliveos.py#line4|800|600|1}}

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