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/
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.