On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > 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/ Cool. Which are you using, by preference? That information is unpublished, near as I can tell, and would help my efforts. > 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. Does it? Are you concerned about trademark issues, or just lack the time to slip them into something like a "git" repository which would be clonable and thus accessible? Do you want help getting those into a decent git accessible structure so this can be shared, maybe in a future release?