On Jan 4, 2012 11:32 AM, "gt" <codered12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello folks > > I was wondering if there is a way to rebuild a custom live disc, using > archiso, without having to download all the packages over again. > > The problem is that after making a few changes to the configuration, > mainly inside root-image directory, i want to rebuild the iso. > > But, running build.sh says that everything is up-to-date. Alternatively, > i tried removing the root squashfs file, and ran build.sh again. But, it > started downloading ~500MB of packages all over again :( > > I'll probably have to do some more fine tuning before finalising the > iso, and i don't want this to repeat itself. > > Please help. > > -- > O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org I don't know how to rebuild the ISO, but for the meantime, you could back up your /var/cache/pacman/pkg dir, since that is where your packages are stored. I hope that helps from not having to redownload 500 MB again.
