SprezzOS packaging which doesn't involve the installer or kernel. I. Building packages II. Adding packages III. Package notes I. Rebuilding packages Run "make world" to rebuild all packages. You'll need at least: GNU make dctrl-tools git wget dpkg-dev autoconf-archive pkg-config uscan libwww-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl II. Adding packages Create a directory with the package's name. Populate it ala a Debian control directory. Add the URI to one of the source files FIXME. II.1 Normal packages II.2 Kernel packages II.3 Installer packages (udebs) II.4 Python modules (setup.py) After installing python-stdeb, run: python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb Results will be in deb_dist following a successful build. III. Package notes cups -- will break in the presence of firewalling or port unavailability eglibc -- have yet to successfully build due to unit test failure of unknown cause (eintr.c test) libxml2 -- parallel builds appear to be broken. libav -- parallel builds are broken