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[Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
I have had to rapidly rebuild things multiple times recently trying to 
fix some minor issues to test this out.

I have come up with a way (I think.. we shall see) to do this very simply.

The issue for me is running a VM, updating the system, and then cleaning 
up and recompressing it.

So this requires a separate VM disk for holding the tarball, one for my 
base OS, and then my testbed
I have to boot into the baseOS, then update.
Then boot into live and then compress.
Then I rebuild the entire ISO.

So, I am currently testing a few scripts
*updateTarball*
I decompress the tarball, then I update the system in a chroot.
then I recompress it again.

*mkISO*
This simply rebuilds the already existing chroot into a squashfs and 
will update the system, and include the current tarball

So far I have tested mkISO and it produces a bootable ISO, as it should.
This will allow me to tweak files individually until I get things correct.
I will only have to wait a for the time it takes to make the squashfs.

So far this has sped up the process considerably.  I am testing the 
tarball update script, and will have my results soon.

I will be pushing these changes to github when It is appropriate.

I am also tweaking the old OSmaker script in hopes that someone could 
make a working tarball from a chroot.
I have learned a lot about chroot and the OBI since I originally tried 
this, so I may be able to adequately do this.

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Regards