[WBEL-devel] WBEL + extra packages (was Re: Build Utils)

[Ed L Cashin]

John Morris <jmorris@beau.org> writes:

> If you want to be able to roll errata within hours of them appearing on
> redhat-announce, you need these utils.  If you want to roll an inhouse
> branch of whitebox you need these utils.  Or if you are just curious and
> or bored and want to see some cheezy shell scripts, you want this
> download!
>
> http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/whitebox-buildutils.tar.gz

Speaking of creating or re-creating WBEL, I'm trying to explore ways
to make a distro that would be WBEL + extra stuff, including GFS.  I'd
create the GFS rpms from the current CVS sources.

What are the best ways to do something like that?  I can imagine
several ways, but I might be overlooking something better.  Here are
some ideas that have occurred to me:

  * release an iso image of WBEL with the extra rpms already
    integrated and installed by default

  * release rpms and yum stuff and publish instructions on how to
    configure yum to get our extra packages

    Here I'm thinking of backports.org and apt.  I can add a line to
    my /etc/apt/sources.list that is specific for a certain package,
    and it gets integrated with my other packages nicely.  I don't
    know yum well enough to know whether something similar is easy to
    do in yum.

  * release iso live CD based on WBEL + extra packages

I like the second method if it's possible, because I imagine the user
would be running WBEL itself, and I would only publish rpms and yum
stuff to integrate the rpms with WBEL.

Does anybody have any pointers, tips, or suggestions?

-- 
  Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>