Re: CentOS on wildfire

[Sergey Tikhonov <tsv solvo ru>]

Robin Humble wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:18:54PM +0300, Pasi Pirhonen wrote:
>  
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> > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 03:14:55PM -0400, Robin Humble wrote:
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> >
> > > I've built almost all of the rpms from the 4.4 release now (everything
> > > since ~Feb '06). I think only oprofile, ltrace, and tog-pegasus are
> > > missing - the other 150 are patched where needed and rebuilt. some have
> > > even been tested! :)
> > >
> > > what's the procedure to get these into the CentOS distribution and
> > > signed with the CentOS key etc?
> > >      
> > This is kind of wrong place for this kind of talk, but propably you
> > should contaact Johnny Hughes if you're serious and able to maintain
> > CentOS-4/axp.
> >    
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> I've built the update 4 rpms and it seems a shame to waste them by
> not pushing the effort back into CentOS somehow - contributing back to
> the community etc. ...  the rpms are far more useful if they're at
> CentOS's site than they are just sitting in a public repo of mine.
>
> I'm ok with keeping fairly up to date rebuilding RHEL 4 sources and I'm
> happy to keep on doing that. RHEL 5 would be a fair chunk of work and
> I'm not sure I'll have time for that (or indeed for how much longer I'll
> have access to alpha hardware).
>  
Surely, it might be a lot of work. :) I have almost all packages built 
for AC3, but modular xorg doesn't work
on my Radeon. :( I haven't had time to understand what could be wrong, 
but all my attempts failed. I doubt
that that AC3 could be usefull for workstations. :(

> however, I don't have a clue about how to make a CentOS 4.4 iso from
> rpms, or how to seed a bittorrent, and am not all that keen to deal
> with lots of CentOS politics (if it exists) either.
>  
If you like I could give you instructions how to build isos out of bunch 
of packages. Hope it would work for CentOS too.

> that's why I was asking here - for help with the above and for help
> keeping CentOS for alpha alive...
>  
PS. If it is interesting to someone - I was able to implement JIT for 
Mono C# on Linux/Alpha. It is not even in beta version yet, but does pass
a lot of internal tests and could print "Hello world!". :)

Regards,

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Sergey Tikhonov

Solvo Ltd.
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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