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====Woof====

==Introduction==
~'For a long time I have dreamt of a "magical script" that could download packages of some other distro, cut them right down to Puppy-size, then build a Puppy Linux live-CD -- and do all of this totally automatically.'

~**Woof** is a Puppy building program. It is used to build a Puppy Linux distribution from the binary packages of another Linux distribution.

==Build process==
~The process used by Woof to build a Puppy Linux distribution from another Linux distribution:

The user selects the Linux distribution to be used as the foundation of the Puppy Linux distribution
The user selects the choice of packages and other options
The user initiates the build process
If needed for the selected Linux distribution, the scripts perform preprocessing tasks
The scripts download the package database files of the selected Linux distribution
The scripts download the package files of the selected Linux distribution
The scripts build the generic Puppy-packages
The scripts build the Puppy Linux live-CD .iso file of the Puppy Linux distribution
The user burns the Puppy Linux live-CD from the .iso file
If desired, the user builds a new variant of the Puppy Linux distribution using the CD-Remaster tool available in Puppy Linux

==Supported distributions==
~The Linux distributions that Woof can use as the foundation for a Puppy Linux distribution include: Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Arch, T2, SDE, Puppy, Mageia

==Version Control==
~Project version control management system is bones:
~[[http://bkhome.org/bones/index.html Bones official page]]
~[[http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewCat=Bones Bones on Barry's blog]]

==Examples of Woof Puppy versions==
~What can be achieved using Woof: [[Wary]], [[Puppy431]], Dpup ([[Dpup]], [[Squeeze]]), [[Upup Upup]] ([[Puppy5Index Puppy5]], [[LupQ]]), [[Spup]], Tpup ([[Fatdog Fatdog64]], [[Quirky]])

==Alternatives==
~The CD-Remaster program available in Puppy Linux is a simpler way yo build variants of the Puppy Linux distribution.

==Related Pages==
~**Official**
~[[http://www.puppylinux.com/woof/index.html Woof official page]]
~[[http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewCat=Woof Woof on Barry's blog]]

~**Tutorials**
~[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67123 EZ-Woof-525 - The Lucid 5.2.5 Build Environment ]]
~[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65020 How to Use Woof to Build Lucid Puppy 5.2 thread]]
~[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47331 How to Build a Custom Puppy with Woof thread]]

~**Other**
~[[http://puppylinux.com/woof/ppm.htm Puppy Package Management on Barry's Blog]]
~[[WikiPedia:Woof_(software)]]
~[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=323181 Ppup 416alpha bug reports thread]]
~[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=452324#452324 Woof: working okay for me thread]]
~[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60180 How to switch kernels between Puppy versions thread]]


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