This one was pretty simple. First off, I just made [an organization to hold all my blendOS code](https://git.askiiart.net/askiiart-blendos) on my Forgejo instance just to keep it organized. Then I just cloned all the relevant repositories from upstream (*blendOS · GitLab*), added my own code with some minor fixes and stuff, then pushed the updated code to my server.
After that, it was just a matter of adding the actual packaging for the code. For the packages that were required for building the blendOS `iso` file, if I didn't have my own repository for them already, I just made a new branch, updated the packaging, and pushed the packaging to that branch.
Looking at the [package list](https://git.blendos.co/blendOS/image-builder/-/blob/main/packages.x86_64) from `image-builder` (*blendOS / image-builder · GitLab*), it seems the only blendOS-specific packages it uses are:
At first, after a bit of minor troubleshooting, I got this all set up and working, pretty simple.
## Oops it didn't work actually
I then realized that my `iso` file worked, but was not using my repo, and I had even forgotten to even add some of the packages.
Turns out I had added my repo to the container's `pacman` configuration, but not to the `pacman` config for `archiso`, the tool used to generate the `iso` file, or the actual resulting `iso` image's `pacman` config either. So while I would have been able to install anything from my repo in the container, the repo was unused by `archiso`.
I just added the missing packages needed to build the `iso` file, plus all the others on blendOS's GitLab, and rebuilt it. After a bit of troubleshooting (nothing interesting, just incompetency, wrong perms, stuff like that), I got it working perfectly.
