Re: I gotta ask this ...

[Fezzik Giant]

Yes, I've recently looked at the LFS book. I wish it was scripted :)

Right now the package dependencies are getting in my way (in terms of a 
manual process). I'm thinking of writing a script that extracts the 
'BuildRequires' tags, creates a directed graph of the build dependencies (as 
different from the installation dependencies), does a topological sort on 
the graph and kicks off the build process.

I would love to get some comments on this approach. Hopefully it's been done 
and someone can send a link.

Cheers!

> From: Jules Colding <jules(a)tdcadsl.dk&gt;
> Reply-To: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com
> To: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com
> Subject: Re: I gotta ask this ...
> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 20:48:41 +0100
>
> On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 23:30, Alan Cox wrote:
>  > > I have seen several posts in the past where someone asks about 
> building
>  > > Fedora ISO images. I have yet to see a response.
>  > >
>  > > Surely _someone_ must know how this is done. Why is there never a 
> response?
>  > > Is this knowledge a 'secret sauce' that nobody wishes to share?
>  >
>  > Not really secret sauce. Build all the packages, boot the result, build
>  > all the packages again with it, figure out how to fit it all and the 
> installer
>  > on the CD images and burn.
>
> One way to do this is to look at LFS. The idea is to make a shell script
> to do what the LFS book says. I have done this once and are doing it
> again (for various reasons) right now. It would be a simple, but
> tedious, job to replace the LFS packages with fedora packages.
>
> One downside with my current approach is that I am building a system
> from tarballs and SRPMs but the resulting "distribution" is not RPM
> based. I think someone could fix this when I am done..
>
> Just ask and I will mail the resulting scripts (under the GPL) to
> whoever wants them, when I am done.
>
>
> --
>    jules
>
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