Using custom base image when building my own image

[carmine ridge]

I was wondering when creating my own image, how i could base it on something that is not the vanillaos images? My initial goal was to try and make my own image that is on the latest kernel possible and to change the desktop environment along with boot manager and such. Maybe using a different image base is not the solution but i am not sure how to continue forward with the image that i want to build.

[carmine ridge]

i did go around the core image and did find that vanillaOS is regretablly using their own repository instead of the mainstream sid one

[lunar nebula]

I believe you can add custom repos yes

[carmine ridge]

yeah i also thought of that a bit earlier and am also looking into how to do that

but um what do you think about other things like making custom image to replace the desktop environment and such?

[lunar nebula]

Follow the vib documentation, you’d need to modify a base without a desktop then add the packaged you need. What desktop are you trying to use?

[carmine ridge]

yeah that is the thing i am struggling with, the image to base it off

i tried the core one but it would refuse to use that one

because it made the most sense to use the core image since that is what it's used to build the desktop one

[lunar nebula]

There’s a website for them but I forgot what it is

[carmine ridge]

ahh

[lunar nebula]

What desktop are you try to use?

[carmine ridge]

me personally plasma but i have a buddie that wants to setup hyprland

[lunar nebula]

Theresa a plasma image you could base on

[carmine ridge]

ohh, but if i base off of it can i remove things or no

i am guessing if i want a customized image i would have to do it myselfl

haha

[lunar nebula]

Yes you can

Just using the GitHub repo like the vib documentation says to

[carmine ridge]

ah i see

i would appreciate if you happen to find the website with the images

but thanks a lot for the info

[lunar nebula]

@hushed wren do you remember what it was

[carmine ridge]

now i just need to find out how to add sid sources lol

[lunar nebula]

Oh wait

https://images.vanillaos.org/#/

[lunar nebula]

They base on Sid, please do not do this

[carmine ridge]

oh my god

thanks

[carmine ridge]

not latest sid

[lunar nebula]

That’s the point

[carmine ridge]

well i have reasons for some packages to be bleeding edge

[lunar nebula]

Like?

And don’t you say hyprland or the kernel lmao

[carmine ridge]

why not >:3

[lunar nebula]

Because those show you don’t know what you’re saying lmao

[carmine ridge]

it's mostly my buddie that's a bleeding edge junkie

i can't help it

[carmine ridge]

i was just kidding

i just want to setup up the stuff for my buddie

or they will jump back to arch

[lunar nebula]

Lmao good

[carmine ridge]

god forbid

[lunar nebula]

Just please do not use upstream, its untested

[carmine ridge]

oh yes i know

[hushed wren]

@carmine ridge You should base your custom image off the Vanilla OS Core image

[lunar nebula]

For all of our sanities

[carmine ridge]

aha as i thought

[lunar nebula]

No no upstream

[carmine ridge]

but thanks for the input

[carmine ridge]

sometimes it's fun

[hushed wren]

I have a wip Labwc image you could use for as inspiration for how to make an image with a Wayland compositor

Its called Lime, in the Kanola repo

[carmine ridge]

oh that would be great

thanks

[hushed wren]

https://github.com/Kanola-Images/Lime

Look at the dev branch

[carmine ridge]

thanks a lot

i will base from the core image and then take inspiration from yours and other images

[lunar nebula]

When life gives you lime juice, recreate the lime

[hushed wren]

Lmao

[hushed wren]

Oh wait I finally read the question

Gimmie a sec

[carmine ridge]

it's quite alright i already got the answers i really needed

i was mainly wondering off of which image to base

[hushed wren]

https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/pico-image

You can modify the pico image to use whatever distro base you would prefer

[carmine ridge]

ohhh shit

nice

[hushed wren]

It isnt officially supported AFAIK, you'd be going into uncharted territory

But its in theory possible

[carmine ridge]

and then i can base my own core from my own pico

[hushed wren]

Yep, in core you add abroot and all that jazz

[carmine ridge]

nice nice

[hushed wren]

And then a desktop image off your core

[carmine ridge]

good to know

i can do some shenanigans

[hushed wren]

I'm intending to experiment with this in the future

But I wish you luck now

[carmine ridge]

thanks a lot

i will mark this as resolved then

[hushed wren]

You just need a distro that you can install fully manually, e.g. without a live iso

[carmine ridge]

yeah yeah

[hushed wren]

Like Debian with debootstrap, arch with the installing arch without a USB page on the wiki

[carmine ridge]

something that has a docker image

[hushed wren]

No, you dont base it on a docker image

You make it from scratch

[carmine ridge]

oh

i thought i tell pico to use a docker image

interesting

[hushed wren]

Read the pico modules

[carmine ridge]

yeah i will

[hushed wren]

Pico uses debootstrap to make a custom image

[carmine ridge]

i don't think i will use something other than debian but yeah i was just curious

[hushed wren]

You could possibly base core off a preexisting docker image but I have no clue if it'll work tbh

Worth a shot ig