Hello,
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.
Is it just a matter of downloading them from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/ and building the packages?
This is for personal/internal use so there shouldn't be an issue with trademarks+redistribution as far as I'm aware.
Thanks,
--Amos
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?
-- Russ herrold
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of R P Herrold Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 22:23 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Rebuilding RHEL from source?
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
Nice write up. I we could provide some VMs let us know.
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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
On 05/01/11 7:17 PM, Amos Shapira wrote:
Hello,
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.
Is it just a matter of downloading them from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/ and building the packages?
This is for personal/internal use so there shouldn't be an issue with trademarks+redistribution as far as I'm aware.
the difficult part is figuring out which compilers and tools and such to use to build certain components, this isn't published, and you can't just use the tools built into el5 or whatever and expect correct results.
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