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 at tdcadsl.dk>
>Reply-To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
>To: fedora-devel-list at 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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