On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote: > > Complicated is a good word... > >> But, the bigger question is where it leaves us if >> they just decide to quit after assimilating most of the related >> systems under a build ecosystem that no one else can reproduce easily. >> > There is no secret sauce to the buildsystem. It's not like we're > converting TRS-80 Model II TRSDOS files to LS-DOS or anything here, > where things aren't well-documented or completely undocumented. Hey, I could have done that with my eyes closed and in z80 code. But those were simpler times. > I have reproduced to an extent the buildsystem for CentOS 5 on IA64, and > with a little nudging in the right direction by some folks I was able to > figure it out. The hard part, as as been said I don't know how many > times, is getting the x.0's first tree's dependency tree and build > sequence correct with the buildroot populated with a good starter set of > packages (and this is very well documented in the Fedora documentation). > > Anyway, the current work with seven.centos.org is a really good start. I hope someone manages an ARM build eventually. It would be fun to play with cheap hardware and reliable code. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com