On 2 May 2011 12:22, R P Herrold <herrold@owlriver.com> wrote:

On Mon, 2 May 2011, Amos Shapira wrote:

> Does anyone have instructions on how to go through the
> entire process from downloading source RPM's from RedHat's
> servers through to building the entire distribution?
>
> I've searched through the web and CentOS' own web sites and couldn't find
> such instructions.

yeah - no one has ever documented it

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-April/109942.html

Those centos people are hiding the secrets

... not

You must have looked -- what? 5 seconds?

Thanks for the pointer and your kind words.

None of the keywords I used ("Red Hat", "RHEL", "Build", "Compile" "source" etc) appear in this reference, even though I've been digging for this on and off for a few days.

If I get to implement this, I'll try to put up the scripts in public.

Cheers,

--Amos