Flavors: customize SliTaz to your needs
Flavors are a customized SliTaz live CD-ROM for a specific :- usage (your profession, demo, games, office, virtualizer, rescue...)
- target (eeepc901, cluster, arm tablet...)
- look (enlightenment, multi touch interface, other OS fake...)
- configuration (with your settings)
- subset/superset, and so on...
A flavor file (*.flavor) holds all the information to build an ISO image in a few kilobytes.
This ISO image can be burnt on a CD-ROM/DVD or installed on an USB key with tazusb.
Online builder - Download your flavor file in 6 steps
Note: to build a tiny text based server, you can try Tiny SliTaz builder instead.
Step 1. Find the packages for your flavor using
Embedded builder : Tazlito
The Online flavor builder cannot manage file access rights or advanced features such as private mirrors, meta flavors or non free packages.
See the documentation and examples online.
In short: create a /home/slitaz/flavors/<your-flavor> tree with a receipt... and then run :
# tazlito pack-flavor <your-flavor> # tazlito get-flavor <your-flavor>.flavor # tazlito gen-distro
You have remastered SliTaz without using flavors and you have only an ISO image ? This tool will create a flavor for you !
# tazlito iso2flavor <your-ISO_image> <your-flavor>
Example: build a flavor from the Live CD
The SliTaz live CD flavor is called core. Get this flavor and extract it:
# tazlito get-flavor core # tazlito extract-flavor core # cd /home/slitaz/flavors/core
Install any packages you want, add or modify some files... Copy these files in to the rootfs tree. Example:
# mkdir -p rootfs/etc/init.d # cp -a /etc/init.d/local.sh rootfs/etc/init.d # cp -a /etc/dropbear rootfs/etc # cp -a /etc/network.conf rootfs/etc # cp -a /etc/firefox rootfs/etc
Create the packages.list file.
# ls /var/lib/tazpkg/installed > packages.list
Create the rootcd tree for extra files on the CD-ROM.
# mkdir rootcd # vi rootcd/README.txt
Update the receipt and rename the flavor.
# vi receipt # cd .. # mv core myconfig
Create your myconfig.flavor file.
# cd # tazlito pack-flavor myconfig
