[WBEL-users] I would like to understand the build process better.

[Simone]

Why not downloading an evaluation version of RHEL4 itself (free 30 days 
rhn updates) so to have the system rebuild on itself?

http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/eval/

Have a nice day
Simone


John Morris wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:49, Ralph Blach wrote:
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>>If I have a fedora core 3 installation of Linux, and say wanted to build 
>>a Rel 4 what would be the general steps.
>>
>> From the looks of it,
>>1) install enough fedora system in a chroot area so that I can compile 
>>and build, the from the source rpms
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>I am currently building on a FC2 system using slightly newer versions of
>scripts available from the whiteboxlinux.org site.  They will allow you
>to create and enter chroot environments in either 32 ot 64 bit mode
>created from WBEL 3.0, 3.0-respin2, RHEL4-Beta2 or sorta (the posted
>version is buggy) WBEL4.
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>>2)slowly rebuild the system, so that none of the fedora system exist.
>>Is this how it is done?
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>That isn't how I do it.  Once I have a chroot build environment I do
>everything from there up to spinning iso images and burning the media. 
>Then I carry those CD/DVDs to a test machine and try installing on real
>hardware.  Note bugs/errors/etc apply fixes to the packages and rebuild,
>wash rinse repeat.  Once I get a stable build I place those files in
>/whitebox/distrib and reinstall the chroot from that.
>
>The outside system is not all that important, but does have some
>influences on what is happening in the chroot.  For example, making /dev
>work can be an issue, the current scripts assume the real system still
>has a real /dev it can copy from.  And the running kernel version gets
>embedded into xorg on WBEL4 so it clearly identifies itself as having
>been built on FC2.  Post WBEL4 release I hope to find myself shifting
>day to day operation on the buildhost to it so I will be changing the
>scripts.  After running some tests to make sure WBEL3 will still build
>packages correctly with a 2.6 kernel in charge.
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