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How to build Qubes installation ISO

Qubes uses Fedora Unity Revisor to build the installation ISO.

You may want to get familiar with Revisor documentation.

Build installer packages

Get Qubes Installer repository and build its packages:

cd installer
make rpms

Packages will be in rpm/noarch and rpm/x86_64.

Install Revisor

Next install the freshly built revisor and anaconda:

yum install rpm/noarch/revisor*.rpm
yum install rpm/x86_64/anaconda*.rpm

Review configuration files

All configuration files for Qubes Revisor are kept in the conf/ directory:

Create/Update local repository

Revisor fetches all RPM packages from YUM repositories. We currently use 5 repositories:

• remote fedora repo for extra packages (usually deps for qubes-dom0)

You need to manually copy the Fedora 13 installation DVD contents (Packages/ and repodata/ directories) into build/fedora13-repo.

Also, you need to copy all the qubes dom0 rpms into build/yum/qubes-dom0/rpm and run the yum/update_repo.sh script afterwards.

In order to fill the build/yum/installer repo one can just use make update-repo.

The build/yum/dom0-updates is to be used for select rpms that should also be used instead of those from the fedora (loacal and remote) repos.

Update your local repos:

make update-repo

Build ISO

Now you're finally ready to build the ISO image:

make iso

and wait...

You may add -d 1 (or -d 99 if you're a masochist) in the Makefile at the end of the revisor command to get (a ton of) debugging information.