Setup Simple-CDD Workspace

The first thing to do is to create the main workspace directory. This can be done easily with command line. In this tutorial, we use a simple name "customISO". Once created, we change directory into it.

$ mkdir customISO

$ cd customISO

Next is to create all critical directories. They are:

1. profiles - holds all the profiles for compilations
2. confs - holds all the compilations configurations
3. local_packages - holds all your custom packages

The can be done easily using the make directory command. If you're using git, you want to create .gitkeep in each directories:

$ mkdir profiles confs local_packages

$ touch profiles/.gitkeep

$ touch confs/.gitkeep

$ touch local_packages/.gitkeep

Once everything is done, you may create your standard .gitignore file if you're using git version control. At minimum, the file must have:

images

tmp

the images is the large output directory that holds the output ISO file while the tmp is the temporary working directory to download all the deb and udeb packages for compilations.