In looking at the various FAQs, I haven't seen an answer to this, so I thought I would pose it here. Where/how do the CentOS maintainers get the SRPMS from the upstream vendor? The reason I ask is more a question of given DVDs of all the SRPMs, how does one go about spinning up an installable ISO? I'm thinking from the perspective of rolling my own ISO until CentOS 6 came out.
Thanks,
-Coy
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Coy Hile wrote:
In looking at the various FAQs, I haven't seen an answer to this, so I thought I would pose it here. Where/how do the CentOS maintainers get the SRPMS from the upstream vendor? The reason I ask is more a question of given DVDs of all the SRPMs, how does one go about spinning up an installable ISO? I'm thinking from the perspective of rolling my own ISO until CentOS 6 came out.
You can find these at:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/
On 3/24/2011 11:49 AM, Coy Hile wrote:
In looking at the various FAQs, I haven't seen an answer to this, so I thought I would pose it here. Where/how do the CentOS maintainers get the SRPMS from the upstream vendor? The reason I ask is more a question of given DVDs of all the SRPMs, how does one go about spinning up an installable ISO? I'm thinking from the perspective of rolling my own ISO until CentOS 6 came out.
The srpms are here: http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/, but note that the build is non-trivial and has already been done by Scientific Linux (http://www.scientificlinux.org/). Their version isn't as exact a copy of the upstream binaries as CentOS plans to produce but it is suitable for general use and likely better than anyone could do as their first attempt.
on 3/24/2011 9:49 AM Coy Hile spake the following:
In looking at the various FAQs, I haven't seen an answer to this, so I thought I would pose it here. Where/how do the CentOS maintainers get the SRPMS from the upstream vendor? The reason I ask is more a question of given DVDs of all the SRPMs, how does one go about spinning up an installable ISO? I'm thinking from the perspective of rolling my own ISO until CentOS 6 came out.
Thanks,
-Coy
That is like asking " I have a scalpel, how do I do brain surgery in the mirror?" Getting the scalpel is easy... It is the magic of actually producing a working distro that is the difficult part. If it was easy enough for every one to do it, it would already be out and sync'd to the mirrors.
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote:
on 3/24/2011 9:49 AM Coy Hile spake the following:
In looking at the various FAQs, I haven't seen an answer to this, so I thought I would pose it here. Where/how do the CentOS maintainers get the SRPMS from the upstream vendor? The reason I ask is more a question of given DVDs of all the SRPMs, how does one go about spinning up an installable ISO? I'm thinking from the perspective of rolling my own ISO until CentOS 6 came out.
Thanks,
-Coy
That is like asking " I have a scalpel, how do I do brain surgery in the mirror?" Getting the scalpel is easy... It is the magic of actually producing a working distro that is the difficult part. If it was easy enough for every one to do it, it would already be out and sync'd to the mirrors.
Speaking of which.
Would it be possible to publish the currently used "build" scripts, and mock configuration files, in the centos/5.5/build/ repository? And expire the clearly out-of-date or duplicated files there? It would help reduce confusion for those of us who *do* know quite a lot about brain surgery.
(Oddly enough, I do know something about brain surgery. The sound of the pneumatic drill used on human skulls to avoid electrical problems, and the smell of overheated bone as it is drilled away is.... an interesting memory.)
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