BCD a new tool to build Mandriva ISO This tool has been fully writen from scratch. I spend a lot of time to understand how to use mkcd and all this secrets... i am now a master of mkcd, but mkcd's design is quite old and a lot of features are no more used. Morever adding the suggest support was a pain, (they are still some bugs with 64b arch and i don't know why...). I write some specifications for this new tools: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Tasks/Packaging/Tools/mkcd/Specification Major problem of Mkcd was the understanding of the deps algo... so now to avoid the problem of multi-media with sub-media like updates and so on... i use urpmi wich is the greatest tool i know to solve all kinds of conflicts, deps and other rpm problem. result: it takes me now less that 1 minute to build an ISO of 650 mo with a Mandrva's repositery with release and updates media ! It's really better than the previous 5 minutes, and i do not need to take care of release of software (especially update) because urpmi kow how to handle them :) NOTE : Your user MUST be sudoers to use urpmi ! CAUTION: XML syntax is strict. i highly recommand to base your conf on the one provided with this packages. FEATURES: - configuration file in XML format - use of genhdlist2 with file-deps - support the add of isolinux entry - change the theme on all.rdz files - just need an input and an exclude file - write media.cfg - use custom rpmsrate of compssusers.pl - all sub-media supported (updates, testing...) - iso HEADER - md5 in a file - create a product.id file - create a VERSION file - support of no-suggests option per media - support extra external media with hdlists This tool is not able to: - calculate the target size of an ISO - support dualarch - spread packages on multi-CD - md5 in iso header Typical MEDIA list from an MDV repo: Main Main Updates Main Testing Main Backports Main debug Main Updates debug Main Testing debug Main Backports debug Contrib Contrib Updates Contrib Testing Contrib Backports Contrib debug Contrib Updates debug Contrib Testing debug Contrib Backports debug Non-free Non-free Updates Non-free Testing Non-free Backports debug_non-free_release debug_non-free_updates debug_non-free_testing debug_non-free_backports Restricted Restricted Updates