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[WBEL-devel] Building Red Hat from SRC Rpms
Louis
2004-02-24 22:40:47 UTC
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I realize that the WhiteBoxLinux exist. But I would like to try and build
the AS release of Red Hat Enterprise. I've performed the "rpmbuild" on a
number of the source rpms and I'm receiving a number of warnings related
struct's and the like.

How did you over come these issues?

Is there any way to list the content of a src rpm and a standard rpm?

I've been able to over any errors so far but I have not built the kernel
yet. What should I be concerned with as I move forward?

Any input you may have will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Louis


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L. Jankok
2004-02-25 07:04:24 UTC
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Louis,

On the rhel cd's you will not find all the dev packages you need to
build the distribution. Luckily you can build all the missing dev
packages yourself by rebuilding the appropriate src rpms.
Once you have rebuilded all the missing dev rpms you will be able to
rebuild the whole src rpm tree.
Kudos for the folks at Red Hat for their commitment to the opensource
community.. At SUSE they could take that as an example..
Probably you would like to tweak the comps.xl because otherwise you
would have a bloathed install. I wonder when Red Hat will begin
using something better than RPM.. because it sucks.

greetings,

Lucio

On 0, Louis <***@ameritech.net> wrote:
:
: I realize that the WhiteBoxLinux exist. But I would like to try and
: build the AS release of Red Hat Enterprise. I've performed the
: "rpmbuild" on a number of the source rpms and I'm receiving a number
: of warnings related struct's and the like.
:
: How did you over come these issues?
:
: Is there any way to list the content of a src rpm and a standard rpm?
:
: I've been able to over any errors so far but I have not built the
: kernel yet. What should I be concerned with as I move forward?
:
: Any input you may have will be greatly appreciated.
:
: Thanks
:
: Louis
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