[WBEL-devel] Build Utils

[John Morris]

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

[Charles Stevenson]

John,

Post by John Morris
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

Hey these are really cool! :-) Thanks for sharing. The tools I had
started using/developing about 4 years ago are available on my linux/ppc
developer site if you want to take a look. Perhaps we can combine the
ideas into a project. From my perspective it would be great to be able
to grab RHEL, White Box, whichever and patch them to have Atipa logos
and the usual changes to appease RedHat.

Here's the URL to duhbuild:

http://penguinppc.org/~core/duhbuild/

Please don't laugh ;) I was still learning Python back then. I think I
could do much better now. I want to play with your tools some more soon
and give some feedback.

Oh and in case you're interested there's also the source code for the
installer I and a couple other friends wrote while working at Yellow Dog
Linux. Back then anaconda was IMHO pretty terrible so we created our own
clone from scratch. There's bits and pieces that are still useful even
today. Here's that URL:

http://penguinppc.org/~core/yi-0.6.0.tar.gz
http://penguinppc.org/~core/yi-0.6.0/

Kind Regards,
Charlie

[Ed L Cashin]

Post by John Morris
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?

[Jan-Frode Myklebust]

Post by Ed L Cashin
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.

Not from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/RHGFS/ ?

I'd definitly prefere creating the yum repository, and making it an
overlay to standard RHEL/whitebox/tao/whatever. If not I will have
to rip the packages out of your alternative distribution, and created
the repository locally for our use.


-jf

[Ed L Cashin]

Post by Jan-Frode Myklebust

Post by Ed L Cashin
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.

Not from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/RHGFS/ ?
I'd definitly prefere creating the yum repository, and making it an
overlay to standard RHEL/whitebox/tao/whatever. If not I will have
to rip the packages out of your alternative distribution, and created
the repository locally for our use.

Thanks. It sounds like I should learn more about creating a yum
repository.