On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just to make sure i understand one of the phases of building > a custom distro, i'm reading an archive posting that goes thru > the steps in detail, but in general, if i want to rebrand a > distro, as in removing all references to red hat, replacing > logos and so on, is this the general process: > > 1) install anaconda.src.rpm > 2) hack the source/spec files, replace RH references with > my own > 3) build a new anaconda.i386.rpm from the result > 4) place this new RPM in the build tree, where it will be > used as the new installer > > i guess the question is, when i run "buildinstall", does it > use the version of anaconda.i386.rpm it finds in the build tree > i've constructed? Yup. Only the buildinstall script itself comes from what is installed on the build system, everything else comes directly from the anaconda-rpms in the RPMS directory of your distro. -- - Panu -
