On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:54 PM, John <jharitos@yahoo.com> wrote:

I've been running ubuntu for awhile and I've compiled my own programs but I've never made my own package (deb file). I tried it once before on Fedora (rpm) years ago and it seemed to complicated. Can someone point me in the right direction on how to build my own packages?

Freegeek rolled their own distro from Debian years ago, before Ubuntu made it a useless pursuit.

In the old days before Backtrack, Knoppix STD was remastrered with specific drivers, etc (because it was distributed without network drivers as a way to keep script kiddie abuse down), which is similar:

Here's some good references:

http://www.tuxradar.com/content/how-build-your-own-linux-distro
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7246 Knoppix