On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 02/20/2011 07:17 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
On 02/20/2011 06:27 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
And casts a magic spell to find those instructions. I'm looking through logs and wiki.centos.org, and having *real* difficulty finding them. In particular, the bootstrapping configurations necessary to build CentOS 6 from scratch on a CentOS 5.x machine seem missing, especially access to the testing SRPM's that have already been patched to work in a non-RHEL environment.
Or do you see something I don't?
I do. :) Use for the build root the rhel6b2 binaries available on ftp.redhat.com and the configs from the mock package available in EPEL-6. There is no magic. Really ( At least for 98% of the work.)
The beta tree is here (binary and source files):
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/
You will also find the fedora 12 binary and source files necessary:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/12/
Cool. Which are you using, by preference? That information is unpublished, near as I can tell, and would help my efforts.
We (CentOS Project) need to perform lots of things on files that we would "Distribute". (Trademark stripping, etc.). We will not distribute our working files to try can get CentOS 6 built, as we have not and do not intend to perform the actions on them which would allow us to release them. That would mean rebuilding and vetting not only CentOS-6 but all those other trees too.
Does it? Are you concerned about trademark issues, or just lack the time to slip them into something like a "git" repository which would be clonable and thus accessible? Do you want help getting those into a decent git accessible structure so this can be shared, maybe in a future release?