Chapter 3. The Software Layer
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Exploring an image's contents
- Adding a new software layer
- Selecting a specific package versions and providers
- Adding supported packages
- Adding new packages
- Adding data, scripts, or configuration files
- Managing users and groups
- Using the sysvinit initialization system
- Using the systemd initialization system
- Installing package-installation scripts
- Reducing the Linux kernel image size
- Reducing the root filesystem image size
- Releasing software
- Analyzing your system for compliance
- Working with open source and proprietary code
Introduction
With hardware-specific changes on their way, the next step is customizing the target root filesystem; that is, the software that runs under the Linux ...
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