Ubuntu Customization Kit

changes made with shell are not sticking

Asked by ryanr

I am making a gnome CD with ubuntu-7.04. I removed and added lots of packages, that worked fine. But I also made lots of changes using the UCK shell ("Run console application").
I scp'd a directory into /root - when I booted from live cd /root was empty
I changed /etc/casper.conf - didn't stick
edited files in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/casper-bottom - also didn't stick
i typed "exit" and then did Continue Build where it made the iso.

I have tried multiple times, any ideas?

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Krzysztof Lichota (krzysiek-launchpad-ubuntu-com) said : 		#1

/root directory is restored when cleaning root filesystem, to remove any artifacts from running apps inside chroot environment. You can disable it - edit file libraries/remaster-live-cd.sh (function clean_rootfs()).

As for /etc files - they should not be restored, but I do not have file /etc/casper.conf, so I do not know where it comes from. Maybe this package is reinstalled later on when you update packages?

Modifying /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/casper-bottom file does not make sense, because initrd is rebuilt only if kernel changes, you should write your own customize_initrd script and use batch building instead of UCK GUI.

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