Hello, Does anyone have instructions on how to go through the entire process from downloading source RPM's from RedHat's servers through to building the entire distribution? I've searched through the web and CentOS' own web sites and couldn't find such instructions. Is it just a matter of downloading them from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/ and building the packages? This is for personal/internal use so there shouldn't be an issue with trademarks+redistribution as far as I'm aware. Thanks, --Amos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110502/da0e5f6a/attachment.html>
On Mon, 2 May 2011, Amos Shapira wrote:> Does anyone have instructions on how to go through the > entire process from downloading source RPM's from RedHat's > servers through to building the entire distribution? > > I've searched through the web and CentOS' own web sites and couldn't find > such instructions.yeah - no one has ever documented it http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-April/109942.html Those centos people are hiding the secrets ... not You must have looked -- what? 5 seconds? -- Russ herrold
On 05/01/11 7:17 PM, Amos Shapira wrote:> Hello, > > Does anyone have instructions on how to go through the entire process > from downloading source RPM's from RedHat's servers through to > building the entire distribution? > > I've searched through the web and CentOS' own web sites and couldn't > find such instructions. > > Is it just a matter of downloading them from > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/ > and building the packages? > > This is for personal/internal use so there shouldn't be an issue with > trademarks+redistribution as far as I'm aware.the difficult part is figuring out which compilers and tools and such to use to build certain components, this isn't published, and you can't just use the tools built into el5 or whatever and expect correct results.