Example that exactly builds Bookworm 64-bit Lite

[DarwinJS]

First time using this and I was hoping it could use the system I'm currently running on as the template rather than a fresh chroot build.

I essentially want something like examples/debstore - but instead of installing the packages, just leave them on disk in the image for scripts to install as part of a course Essentially offlining some large installs for low bandwidth and/or install source rate limiting.

However, with the chroot based build I do not have confidence that I can build exactly the same as Bookworm 64bit Lite with just these additional files and that is what all current course exercises are built on top of.

Is there either:

• a configuration known to build exactly Bookworm 64bit Lite (but not have to use pi-gen instead of rpi-image-gen)
• a way to use the current system I'm running on as the image template, but run generalize processes to back out specifics like host name

Thanks.

[learmj]

Hi. I wouldn't expect a new tool to be able to ingest an image from another tool. rpi-image-gen is specifically designed to construct images from the declarative layer library (building it up the way you want) rather than taking something else as a starting point (and whittling it down). Maybe I've misunderstood your question.

There is no configuration which generates a Raspberry Pi OS Lite image, but if you know the packages you need in your system, why not just use the tool as designed and then have a post-build hook to copy in the debs you want? That way, you get your image your way with your debs inside.

[DarwinJS]

No you didn't misunderstand my "hope".

Windows Sysprep has done this for decades and Linux Mint does it as well.

I don't know the packages because I currently just use the image.

Would it be possible to keep a set of examples here in sync with the official images for purposes such as mine?