On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 20:52, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 18:30 -0800, Patrick Lawrence (centos) wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is anybody working on a build of the CentOS 4 Beta for x86_64? If not, > > are there any directions on how to build a full distribution from the > > available SRPMS that were used to build the i386 version? I didn't see > > any docs on the website. > > > > Regards, > > > > Pat > > Will Dinkel is working on both the CentOS-3.4 respin and CentOS-4beta > for x86_64 ... I'm sure that CentOS-3.4 has priority right now though. > Yup, 3.4 is at the top of the list. Holidays and work duties have made things slow, but I'm almost there. If you guys want to jump ahead and build a beta of RHEL4 x86_64, please do. I'll sync up with you when I get 3.4 out of the way. > I am looking to get a x86_64 machine in the next week, and if I do, I'll > start right away on building the SRPMS for CentOS-4beta. > > My plan would be to install RHEL4-Beta2 x86_64 "everything install" and > create a build user on that machine named buildcentos. I would then just > rebuild the gcc and glibc SRPMS from CentOS-4Beta ... then install the > applicable packages produced over the current ones on the build machine > (using rpm -Uvh ... building any dependancies required as well to > complete the install of gcc and glibc) ... then use the scripts here to > build the SRPMS from CentOS-4beta: > > http://centos.hughesjr.com/build/ > > (generaterpms and buildpackages ... with the .rpmmacros for the > buildcentos user being the file rpmmacros.) There are some basic > instructions and notes here (substitute buildcentos for buildsys) from > my initial build for CentOS-4Beta: > > http://www.hughesjr.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,65/page,viewtopic/t,14/ Will Dinkel Chief Technology Officer Team HPC, Inc. 785-542-2135 x304 wdinkel at teamhpc.com http://www.teamhpc.com