Hi,
I've searched all over Google, but couldn't find a proper answer to my needs.
I've installed CentOS 5.1 only with the packages I need and then made a few of my own.
Now, here's what I need:
a) To integrate my self-made packages in a remasterized DVD;
b) That the install process of the new version skips package choosing, i. e., when it reaches this stage it just installs all the packages of the new version;
c) And last, but not the least, how to remasterize the new DVD with the original packages I've installed, plus the ones I've made.
Any help would be appreciated.
Warm Regards, Mário Gamito
Mário Gamito wrote:
Hi,
I've searched all over Google, but couldn't find a proper answer to my needs.
I've installed CentOS 5.1 only with the packages I need and then made a few of my own.
It is complicated ... if it was easy, everyone would be doing it :-D
Now, here's what I need:
a) To integrate my self-made packages in a remasterized DVD;
copy the tree to disk ... manipulate the tree as you want ... use buildinstall to build a new DVD (edit comps.xml first)
b) That the install process of the new version skips package choosing, i. e., when it reaches this stage it just installs all the packages of the new version;
That would require you to rewrite anaconda totally ... well, you can pass in some options on the anaconda command line to to installs, so it is technically possible to have an install happen with no user interaction:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options
If you are trying to make a reconfigurable install (and not redistribute an OS) what you really need to look at is kickstart installs. You can use kickstart installs to automate installs with no user interaction at all.
You can kickstart in things from other local repos (and not just the centos ones) with the proper setup.
c) And last, but not the least, how to remasterize the new DVD with the original packages I've installed, plus the ones I've made.
This is not easy, as it requires doing many things ... WHY do you need a remastered DVD?
A much easier approach, especially if you plan to redistribute your product to others (unless you want to maintain update repos for all your stuff AND our stuff) would be to create a repo with your new packages only and instructions on how to install CentOS and add your repo at install time via the installer. That way, you only have to maintain and distribute YOUR programs, not all programs.
If you absolutely insist on rebuilding .. you can't call your product CentOS or use our logos. You can say that the product is based on CentOS.
I don't see why one would do this though, as CentOS can support millions of users right now and is totally free to distribute in an unmodified form. And it is MUCH easier to only distribute several updated packages than all those plus all ours.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Johnny Hughes wrote:
If you are trying to make a reconfigurable install (and not redistribute an OS) what you really need to look at is kickstart installs. You can use kickstart installs to automate installs with no user interaction at all.
You can kickstart in things from other local repos (and not just the centos ones) with the proper setup.
Has anyone written a program that will clone the package set that has been installed on an existing machine either by generating a kickstart file or 'yum install' commands to reproduce the package list (and the configured set of yum repos)? I'd like to be able do a very minimal install on new machines, then after the network and yum are working, tell it to become 'like' an existing setup that may have gotten that way over some period of time and experimentation without much thought about the actual package list. Personally I'd rather have something like that with one or more canned lists than your single-CD server install since you usually have to update and replace many packages immediately after an install anyway. Providing a seriously minimal install and a command to install the list of packages that you consider the 'server' set would give the same result with the install-list-of-packages command (mostly) replacing the initial update. That way, all you need is something to generate the list-of-packages from an existing machine and you can install anything just as easily as the dedicated server.
Hi,
If you absolutely insist on rebuilding .. you can't call your product CentOS or use our logos. You can say that the product is based on CentOS.
I don't see why one would do this though, as CentOS can support millions of users right now and is totally free to distribute in an unmodified form. And it is MUCH easier to only distribute several updated packages than all those plus all ours.
Now that Prof. Dan Bernstein has put his software in public domain, I'd like to create a distro based on CentOS that installs a complete email server.
That's why I want to rebuild.
Warm Regards, Mário Gamito
On Dec 6, 2007 9:46 AM, Mário Gamito gamito@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
If you absolutely insist on rebuilding .. you can't call your product CentOS or use our logos. You can say that the product is based on CentOS.
I don't see why one would do this though, as CentOS can support millions of users right now and is totally free to distribute in an unmodified form. And it is MUCH easier to only distribute several updated packages than all those plus all ours.
Now that Prof. Dan Bernstein has put his software in public domain, I'd like to create a distro based on CentOS that installs a complete email server.
That's why I want to rebuild.
Warm Regards, Mário Gamito
And sully a pristine CentOS with qmail? blech. ;-)
On Dec 6, 2007 9:46 AM, Mário Gamito gamito@gmail.com wrote:
Now that Prof. Dan Bernstein has put his software in public domain, I'd like to create a distro based on CentOS that installs a complete email server.
<gasoline> Centos comes with multiple fully functional and RFC/LSB compliant email servers. Why add another non-standard one?</gasoline>
Alternatively, why rebuild a separate distro just for a mail server? Why not package it up and contribute to the already existing centos repos like extras, or centosplus, or maybe even a new repo? Rather than dilute the user pool, adding valuable contributions like this would seek to increase the userbase, and provide you with a rather large existing userbase.
on 12/6/2007 6:46 AM Mário Gamito spake the following:
Hi,
If you absolutely insist on rebuilding .. you can't call your product CentOS or use our logos. You can say that the product is based on CentOS.
I don't see why one would do this though, as CentOS can support millions of users right now and is totally free to distribute in an unmodified form. And it is MUCH easier to only distribute several updated packages than all those plus all ours.
Now that Prof. Dan Bernstein has put his software in public domain, I'd like to create a distro based on CentOS that installs a complete email server.
That's why I want to rebuild.
I believe that SMEServer is based on CentOS and already smears itself full of qmail. And it has nice web-based configuration pages, too!
Maybe fork from there, and use a kickstart to prune or add things you want.
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