woofQ2 readme file improved

Alfons downloaded woofQ2 and tested it. He reported success, it built a drive-image file, that he wrote to a USB Flash drive, booted and it worked. However, he reported that the online readme.txt file has some omissions. I have updated it:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/woofq2/woofq2-project/readme.txt

The URL for downloading the tarballs:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/woofq2/woofq2-project/

The method of updating by downloading the latest 'woofq2-<date>.tar.gz' tarball is very "old school", but those who don't understand git, or find it intimidating, will love this.

The ability to "remaster" has always been in Puppy Linux, though I don't know about the very latest one or the various derivatives. It allows you to install new packages, remove inbuilt packages, then build a new custom ISO or drive-image file.

I removed the remaster feature from EasyOS, due to various problems; instead recommend to build your own Easy drive-image using woofQ2. It is really quite straightforward, just follow the instructions in the readme.txt file.

However, forum member IOwt3ch has posted about a problem with using woofQ2:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=158184#p158184

In the woofq2-<date>.tar.gz tarball, there is a folder 'builtin' and inside that, folders 'deb', 'pet' and 'txz'. Inside the 'deb' folder, there is a file where you can add or remove the .deb packages to be included in the build.

In the 'pet' folder, you can place your own .pet packages, and in 'txz' you can place .tar.xz packages to be included in the build.

What is missing though, is the ability to install foreign .deb packages, that are not in the Debian repository, such as IOwt3ch's "switcher" .deb. I can add that capability. It could be another folder, say 'inbuilt/deb-foreign', in which you can place your debs that you want to include in the build. I've added that to the to-do list.  

Tags: easy