uck-remaster (1)

NAME

uck-remaster - Ubuntu Customization Kit main remastering backend script

SYNOPSIS

uck-remaster [-m] iso-file.iso [customization-scripts-dir [remaster-dir] ]

DESCRIPTION

uck-remaster takes an Ubuntu ISO image, an optional scripts directory and an optional "remaster-dir" as arguments and does the whole process of generating the customized ISO automatically.

The optional customization-scripts-dir argument designates a directory that contains the scripts to use during remastering. By default this is ~/tmp/customization-scripts and will be created from a template by a call to uck-remaster without the customization-scripts-dir argument.

If the optional "remaster-dir" is specified this will be used as (local!) directory that will contain all data created during the customization process. This defaults to ~/tmp if not specified.

For historical (backwards compatibility) reasons the remaster-dir can only be specified, if the customization-scripts-dir argument is specified, too.

If the -m option is specified, a set of loop back and unionfs mounts will be used to create a writeable instance of the ISO image accessible as remaster-iso under remaster-dir. The modified parts of the ISO will be cached in remaster-iso-cache under remaster-dir. This is a lot faster and requires less disk space, but may not work for all scenarios and mandates the installation of some additional software (i.e. fuse-utils and unionfs-fuse).

AUTHOR

Ubuntu Customization Kit has been written by Fabrizio Balliano <fabrizio.balliano@crealabs.it> and Krzysztof Lichota <krzysiek@lichota.net>

This manual was provided by Fabrizio Balliano <fabrizio.balliano@crealabs.it> and Alessio Treglia <quadrispro@ubuntu.com>.

Source code for the Ubuntu Customization Kit is available at uck.sourceforge.net

Bugs can be reported at bugs.launchpad.net/uck