Jim Perrin wrote:
On 5/18/07, Nikolay Ulyanitsky lystor@lystor.org.ua wrote:
May be a good idea to create howto on CentOS Wiki of building discs process to give users possibility of creating CentOS based distributions for highly specialized purposes?
While I like the idea of folks using centos for custom projects and everything, I'm not sure I'd call this a 'good idea' following the oracle fiasco. It's easy enough to create kickstart files and otherwise customize installs. I'm not so sure I like the idea of centos becoming a meta-distribution to help spawn other distros. This dilutes the community and divide the effort and momentum behind centos.
So... Is rpath the way to go for specialized stuff? Personally I've always thought that there should be a better way to clone any system after it is built, at least as far as the installed packages goes so that anyone who was satisfied with a setup he had build could publish the configuration in a way that someone else who needed to do the same job might, instead of wading through hundreds of pages of howto's that don't exactly apply to the versions now available, just click a link, read the description, and agree to have exactly the same setup installed from the same packages from the same repositories as the known-working version. Then instead of a million specialty distributions, you just need repositories where all the parts are available.