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Wubi and filesystem.manifest in /casper

Asked by Artem Popov

I'm wondering if Wubi uses the files, found in /casper directory of the livecd, namely:
filesystem.manifest
filesystem.manifest-desktop

I beleive the first holds all packages installed in squashfs, and the second - only those, that are going to be installed onto the hard disk.

In some way, our LUG relies on these files when producing localized Ubuntu CDs, that contain some extra language packs (and have unneccessary ones removed), that's why our filesystem.manifest* files differ from corresponding files found on the official Ubuntu CDs.

So the question is basically: "Will Wubi work with customized CDs, if the manifests are also okay?". Thanks in advance for any information on this issue :)

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Best Agostino Russo (ago) said : 		#1

No, wubi does not use the manifest files directly, it relies on ubiquity for that.
Be aware though that wubi needs to be recompiled if you want it to handle custom ISOs such as the one in isolist.ini. To recompile use bzr to grab the code, modify it to your liking, and run: make prerequisites && make.

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Artem Popov (artfwo) said : 		#2

Thanks Agostino Russo, that solved my question.