Interesting, would you be willing to share the script? Maybe it can be put on the website even for those interested :)
Are the resulting RPMS really identical to the RedHat 9 versions? Are there no compiler tweaks for EL 3 that would make them faster? Some redhat9 packages do not even run on taroon after rebuilding the SRPM. I tried to install the Midnight Commander but it just segfaults when I try to install it? Makes me think that there are severe differences between RH9 and EL3? On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, csieh wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Sam J. [UNKNOWN] Engström wrote: > > > Remco Barendse wrote: > > >Would it be possible to upgrade taroon with all the packages you've > > > just built? > > > > I'm sure it would, but the dependencies make it really hard to do correctly. I > > did install many of the built packages on both redhat 9 and taroon because many > > packages complained about dependencies right away. > > I did my first build on taroon beta 2 with updates via rhn. My build > script tries to figure out build dependencies. After I had as much as I > could built I used yum to update the build system. I also noticed that > many rpms are "exactly" the same as they are on RedHat 9. So I just > copied those over. No need to build rpms that are the exact same > binary as on 9. I used YUM to upgrade to the rpms I just built. I then > rebuilt everything again. > > I made a release out of it with buildinstall. I made cd images with > splittree and mkisofs. The image boots fine. > > > > > > Then you will have an almost complete EL 3.0 system, and maybe the > > > remaining packages will build as well. > > > > I already managed to make isos and install from them, and I'll use that system > > to build everything again later. Making the isos wasn't very straightforward, > > because disk images created by buildinstall wouldn't boot, and I had to adapt > > taroon's boot disks. I hope someone figures out a better way. I also used > > taroon's comps.xml, which probably wouldn't have worked if I hadn't installed > > everything. > > > > Regards, > > Sam > > > > -- > > Sam J. Engstrom Tel. +358 400 462442 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Managing Director Nemesol http://nemesol.fi > > rhel-rebuild mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria > > > > -Connie Sieh > Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory > > rhel-rebuild mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria > rhel-rebuild mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
