Thanks to Troy and Connie for the helpful comments. I guess I should have included a smiley after the interns comment. I thought I was being funny. :) Revisor sounds like the ticket. Best, On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 07/04/2011 06:21 PM, chinamusic wrote: > >> Are those tools suitable for rolling raw SRPMs from TUV into an SL-like >> form? >> > > No, those tools are not suitable for rolling raw SRPM's from TUV. > > > Has anyone documented the steps to get from A to B? > >> >> > Not as far as I know. > It's not simple, especially from starting from ground zero. > Even if you started with SL 6.0 and went on to do all the updates and > everything to 6.1, you run into problems with about 10% of the packages. > > Thanks in advance, >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Shawn Thompson <[log in to unmask] >> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>**> wrote: >> >> We actually have Fedora's live CD/remastering tools in the repository. >> >> ~Shawn >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:47 AM, chinamusic >> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]**com<[log in to unmask]>>> >> wrote: >> >> Does such a doc exist for the SL process of building the distro >> from the nekkid srpms? >> >> I'm going to have a few interns over the summer so I thought >> this might be a fun project for them to work on and give me some >> insight into flavoring the distro to our environment. >> >> > I have to laugh at this. > Thank you for trivializing my job to such a degree that you think that two > interns over the summer could figure it all out and do it. I feel such job > security. > Just don't tell my boss it's that easy. > (Again, I found it humorous.) > > My apologies in advance if such a tome exists...I wasn't able to >> find it. smile.gif >> >> Best, >> >> >> >> > OK, I will give you some of the common tools. > Most people who do rebuilds use mock and/or koji. Since koji uses mock as > the underlying build process, it doesn't hurt to know mock before knowing > koji. But if they are pressed for time, you don't have to know the details > of mock in order to use a koji server. > > There is another tool out there called something like rpmcompare. It's > called something like that because it's been rewritten and renamed several > times. This is used to compare the binary packages to other binary > packages. This let's you know how close your end packages are to other > vendors packages. > > Since they are pressed for time, I would suggest they start with SL 6.0 as > their initial build platform and build everything after that. Building the > initial SL 6.0 rpm's was very painful. > > Troy > -- > ______________________________**____________________ > Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 > Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/**SLSMS Group > ______________________________**____________________ >