On 01/17/2014 03:33 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Warren Young <warren@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Anyway, if you want a wide-open Linux, Les, you know where to get it.
> Sigh..., It's complicated.
Complicated is a good word...
> But, the bigger question is where it leaves us if
> they just decide to quit after assimilating most of the related
> systems under a build ecosystem that no one else can reproduce easily.
>
There is no secret sauce to the buildsystem. It's not like we're
converting TRS-80 Model II TRSDOS files to LS-DOS or anything here,
where things aren't well-documented or completely undocumented.
I have reproduced to an extent the buildsystem for CentOS 5 on IA64, and
with a little nudging in the right direction by some folks I was able to
figure it out. The hard part, as as been said I don't know how many
times, is getting the x.0's first tree's dependency tree and build
sequence correct with the buildroot populated with a good starter set of
packages (and this is very well documented in the Fedora documentation).
Anyway, the current work with seven.centos.org is a really good start.
But we really shouldn't feed the trolls.
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