Build system - how to ?

TGS spam at tachegroup.com
Wed Jul 6 05:53:23 UTC 2005


Okay, I will look at the archives.

On Jul 5, 2005, at 1:19 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 01:15 -0400, TGS wrote:
>> Thanks for the link on Fedora Extras.
>>
>> As far as Fedora Core is concerned, does that mean that no body can
>> see, understand, or even reproduce the Fedora Core build process,
>> beehive? That does not seem too Open Source to me.
>
> Please see list archives for many conversations on this topic.
>
> Gist:  Fedora Core uses the Red Hat Enterprise Build system for lack of
> anything else right now.  Work is being done on Fedora Extras build
> system which may eventually be used to build Fedora Core.  Beehive
> cannot be opened at this time due to things outside the control of the
> Fedora Project.  Time would be much better spent working on new build
> system than hashing out whether or not it is Open Source or GPL
> compliant to have the beehive open for review.  Beehive is really just 
> a
> scheduling layer for rpmbuild so you can just use rpm build and 
> anaconda
> tools to build your own Fedora.  End of topic.
>
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