Hello,

Does anyone have instructions on how to go through the entire process from downloading source RPM's from RedHat's servers through to building the entire distribution?

I've searched through the web and CentOS' own web sites and couldn't find such instructions.



Is it just a matter of downloading them from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/ and building the packages?



This is for personal/internal use so there shouldn't be an issue with trademarks+redistribution as far as I'm aware.

Thanks,

--Amos


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On Mon, 2 May 2011, Amos Shapira wrote:

> Does anyone have instructions on how to go through the
> entire process from downloading source RPM's from RedHat's
> servers through to building the entire distribution?
>
> I've searched through the web and CentOS' own web sites and couldn't find
> such instructions.

yeah - no one has ever documented it

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-April/109942.html

Those centos people are hiding the secrets

... not

You must have looked -- what? 5 seconds?

-- Russ herrold
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of R P Herrold
> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 22:23
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> Subject: [CentOS] Rebuilding RHEL from source?
>
> On Mon, 2 May 2011, Amos Shapira wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have instructions on how to go through the
> entire process
> > from downloading source RPM's from RedHat's servers through to
> > building the entire distribution?
> >
> > I've searched through the web and CentOS' own web sites and
> couldn't
> > find such instructions.
>
> yeah - no one has ever documented it
>
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-April/109942.html
>

Nice write up. I we could provide some VMs let us know.


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On 05/01/11 7:17 PM, Amos Shapira wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone have instructions on how to go through the entire process
> from downloading source RPM's from RedHat's servers through to
> building the entire distribution?
>
> I've searched through the web and CentOS' own web sites and couldn't
> find such instructions.
>
> Is it just a matter of downloading them from
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/
> and building the packages?
>
> This is for personal/internal use so there shouldn't be an issue with
> trademarks+redistribution as far as I'm aware.

the difficult part is figuring out which compilers and tools and such to
use to build certain components, this isn't published, and you can't
just use the tools built into el5 or whatever and expect correct results.



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On 2 May 2011 12:22, R P Herrold <herrold@owlriver.com> wrote:


On Mon, 2 May 2011, Amos Shapira wrote:



> Does anyone have instructions on how to go through the

> entire process from downloading source RPM's from RedHat's

> servers through to building the entire distribution?

>

> I've searched through the web and CentOS' own web sites and couldn't find

> such instructions.



yeah - no one has ever documented it



http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-April/109942.html



Those centos people are hiding the secrets



... not



You must have looked -- what? 5 seconds?

Thanks for the pointer and your kind words.

None of the keywords I used ("Red Hat", "RHEL", "Build", "Compile" "source" etc) appear in this reference, even though I've been digging for this on and off for a few days.



If I get to implement this, I'll try to put up the scripts in public.

Cheers,

--Amos


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