[CentOS-docs] Re: Create page about rebuilding SRPMS and preparing RPM environment

Mon Jul 21 13:22:48 UTC 2008
Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de>

Alan Bartlett wrote:
> The second reference you have quoted actually details how to obtain the
> Kernel Sources and set up the build tree in a consistent fashion for
> subsequent usage (covered in two other articles).

And you cannot see the problem there? So it is already there - in three
different articles - and has to be changed *everywhere* if some small
aspect of rpm building changes.

Having to change that in *one* place and let all other places link to
that is a much cleaner approach.

>> Basically I think that pointers to the outside are not that good
>> because they not necessarily contain CentOS specific information.
> 
> 
> The main link that Akemi and I currently have in Kernel Sources and Custom
> Kernel is to the (maintained) CentOS specific Owl River page (
> http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/). The other link, in the Custom
> Kernel article, (http://howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_centos/) is
> mentioned to strongly dissuade its use.

Still: People tend to go to the CentOS wiki for finding information (or
they are pointed to it). And I'd like to have information like that
available *in* the wiki where more than one person can change it should
the need arise.

Ralph
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