Woof: PuppyLinux

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Woof

Introduction

Woof is a Puppy building program. It is used to build a Puppy Linux distribution from the binary packages of another Linux distribution.

'For a long time I have dreamt of a "magical script" that could download packages of some other distro, cut them right down to Puppy-size, then build a Puppy Linux live-CD -- and do all of this totally automatically.' BarryK

Build process

The process used by Woof to build a Puppy Linux distribution from another Linux distribution:

The user selects the Linux distribution to be used as the foundation of the Puppy Linux distribution

The user selects the choice of packages and other options

The user initiates the build process

If needed for the selected Linux distribution, the scripts perform preprocessing tasks

The scripts download the package database files of the selected Linux distribution

The scripts download the package files of the selected Linux distribution

The scripts build the generic Puppy-packages

The scripts build the Puppy Linux live-CD .iso file of the Puppy Linux distribution

The user burns the Puppy Linux live-CD from the .iso file

If desired, the user builds a new variant of the Puppy Linux distribution using the CD-Remaster tool available in Puppy Linux

Supported distributions and Architectures

The Linux distributions that Woof can use as the foundation for a Puppy Linux distribution include: Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Arch, T2, SDE, Puppy, Mageia.

The architectures supported include x86, x86-64 and ARM (including the Puppi Rpi's ARMv6 CPU). Improvements to Woof will benefit all supported architectures.