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
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