[CentOS] using centos for linux appliance

[Jason Pyeron]

What we do is a rpm -r /mnt/targetdeviceroot/ ....

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Venkat Subbiah
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 20:19
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: [CentOS] using centos for linux appliance
> 
> Thinking of using CentOS as a host for a Linux Appliance.  
> 
> I am used to building Embedded Linux Systems and there the approach is
> to create the a directory on the development machine and "get files
> "that are to be on the target machine into that directory. 
> This usually
> being termed as building the root file system. Also in the embedded
> systems approach we build from source and usually during the configure
> steps of package we can specify where the end 
> binaries/libraries need to
> be copies. 
> 
> So for Cent OS thinking of using a similar approach with the 
> difference
> that I don't want to build all packages from source.
> 
> 1)Use the binrary rpms and install to a directory on a development
> machine  using the rpm --prefix option.   Not sure yet how to 
> specify to
> create and use an rpm database on the development machine as 
> opposed to
> a database on the development machine.
> 
> Is this really a sensible approach or just using something like
> Kickstart?
> 
> 2) There might be some packages that I want to build from 
> source. Then I
> am thinking I would need the exact compiler used to compile the binary
> rpms. How would I obtain the compiler and environment used to 
> build the
> CentOS binary rpms?
> 
> Thx,
> -Venkat
> 
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