[WBEL-devel] Choosing a RHEL rebuild project

[Simon J Mudd]

kediger@licor.com (Kevin Ediger) writes:

> Simon J Mudd wrote:
> > 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".
> 
> If anyone is interested, I have a WBEL build script (actually, a
> makefile). It builds far enough to use as a network install but
> doesn't generate the individual CDROM images since I always use the
> boot.iso CDROM or PXE and install using NFS. I've incorporated the
> issues that have been discussed on this list as far as I can tell. I
> don't have RHAS3, so I don't know how the packages compare to RedHat's
> packages.
> 
> ftp://odyssey.licor.com/whitebox/build
> 
> The README file has additional information. I also applied the
> whitebox patches to RedHat's recent updates and stored the resulting
> sources in the SRPMS subdirectory.

Thanks for the pointer. I will take a look at it.