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Zandra

Zandra is a minimal Linux distribution forked from morpheus linux. It aims to be simple, small, and efficient. Zandra will hopefully get to a point where it has a stable release cycle, with security patches of course.

Prerequisites

Compiling

To compile the base packages, edit config.mk to your needs and add necessary variables to your shell environment by running source stuff/build-env (IMPORTANT). Currently we are in the process of updating packages to their current versions (before Zandra they were last updated in 2015). Note that most ports on the testing branch, with the exception of a few, are outdated and the URLs may not even work.

Building Packages

Go to the directory of the package you would like to package, then run mk package. You can then host your own package mirrors.

Installing

You can install to a root using the following:

export ROOT="desired root"
mk
mk install

A bootable image can be made using the "bootable" target. IT ASSUMES /dev/loop0 IS FREE SO IF IT'S NOT, DON'T RUN THE SCRIPT!!

If you would like to run Zandra on bare metal, it is recommended that you recompile the kernel (or edit the kernel config before building) with the drivers you need.

Installing packages within Zandra

Connect to the internet first by turning on your network device using ip (best to read the manual first), then running sdhcp. If that worked, you can now download a package by searching for it through searchpkg piped into fetchpkg, then installpkg. A frontend is on the to-do list. Note that searchpkg uses grep regular expressions, and will return anything that matches the regex, so it is advised that you run searchpkg by itself first to make sure you are only downloading exactly what you want. The syntax below also works.

# note: package names end in '#', version follows
searchpkg '^foo#' | fetchpkg
installpkg foo#1.0.pkg.tgz # replace with actual version

You can remove packages by running removepkg foo.

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