-e <extract_iso_name>] [-g <grml_name>] [-i <iso_name>] [
-o <output_directory>] [-r <release_name>] [-s <suite>] [
-t <template_directory>] [-v <version_number>] [-U <username>] [
--AbBFnNqQuVz]
+-w <date>] [-AbBFnNqQuVz]
Description
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Increase verbosity in the build process.
+ -w **DATE**::
+
+The wayback machine. Build the system using Debian archives from the specified
+date. Valid date formats are yyyymmddThhmmssZ or simply yyyymmdd. To learn
+which snapshots exist, i.e. which date strings are valid, simply browse the
+lists on http://snapshot.debian.org/. If there is no import at the exact time
+you specified you will get the latest available timestamp which is before the
+time you specified.
+This option is useful especially for release and debugging builds - for example
+if you know that the Debian archive was in a good state on a specific date but
+you want to build it on another day in the future, where the archive might not
+be as needed anymore. Please be aware that this is restricted to the plain
+Debian repositories only, as referred to in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
+(so neither the Grml repositories nor any further custom ones are affected by
+the wayback machine).
+
-z::
Use ZLIB instead of LZMA/XZ compression in mksquashfs part of the build process.
Current state of grml-live with squashfs-tools and kernel
---------------------------------------------------------
-Use squashfs-tools >=4.2-1 (available from Grml repositories as well as from
-Debian) to build Grml (based) ISOs featuring kernel version 2.6.38-grml[64] or
-newer.
+Use squashfs-tools >=4.2-1 to build Grml (based) ISOs featuring kernel version
+2.6.38-grml[64] or newer.
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