On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Michael Redinger wrote: > Also, as of the netwinder.org autobuild system: is it available for > download or did anybody ask them about it?
freely available from its CVS -- ask Ralph for an account or I can post the tarballs for the two forks > Regarding beehive - I think it not even worth asking Red Hat to make > it available (for now) ... see below > An interresting mail from Russ Herrold regarding "reproduceable builds": > http://www.owlriver.com/projects/packaging/reproduceable-builds.txt I am in process on a longish post summarizing build systems and some issues -- will send more once I am happy with it. > > seth vidal wrote: > > >>I'm aware of two that might be up to the task - the netwinder.org > > >>autobuild system and the one Red Hat uses internally (beehive is the > > >>name, I think). > > > > > > The build system that yellowdog uses. But I think it, like beehive, is > > > considered too important to release sort of thing so it might not ever > > > see the light of day. smile -- nothing so sinister. As my February post, cited above noted, there is the fiction that building the final pass of a distribution is the nice clean product of a finite state machine. Rather. a distribution snapshot is the delicate creation of a fragile and cranky collection of tools which changes and is repaired daily to accomodate the wierd variants in packaging and upstream sources one enounters. Toss in arch, and backward compability issues, and it is a multi-dimentional monster. More later. -- Russ Herrold rhel-rebuild mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
