[WBEL-devel] Choosing a RHEL rebuild project

[Simon J Mudd]

henkvl@cs.uu.nl (Henk van Lingen) writes:

>   According to the archives, this has been raised before. I'm new to
>   the RHEL rebuild thing and looking around which project I should
>   try. I'd like the standardize on one, and can also host/mirror various
>   stuff on a decent server (ftp.cs.uu.nl).

I think you are not alone with this.

>   It seems, there are 3 options: Whitebox, Tao and CentOs. The
>   last, I'm not enthusiastic about. There is still no released version 
>   and, more important, the project seems to build all kind of distribitions,
>   build sets and whatever trying to be a debian-like community (I'm not
>   that kind of free/gpl etc. zealot, more a BSD-license type (no flame
>   intended) :-)).

Of the 2 main contenders I see now I think that what is really needed
is a public build script. With this we can post patches to build WBEL,
tao or whatever, we can let others build the system (and updates as
they appear), or we can do this ourselves.  The build script shouldn't
need to be too big and for those who want a very close to RHEL os they
probably don't have to worry about removing the RH license stuff as
they are not "offering their 'home built' distribution to anyone
else".

Build times for the whole system may be a few days, and some/most
people will want to just use the ready-built ISOs, but should those
builders disappear (a justifiable worry) with a public build script
this problem will go away.

I've been trying to work on this (a build script with someone already)
but it's not in a state to make public. It's a shame that Morris
doesn't do the same with his one.

Simon