Information how to build centos from source

rcbandit · Post by **rcbandit** » 2012/04/06 16:41:03

Hi,
Is there a guide how to build the latess Centos from source?

pschaff · Post by **pschaff** » 2012/04/06 18:38:51

Not to my knowledge. There have been various [url=https://www.google.com/search?q=Enterprise+Linux+rebuild+CentOS+Scientific+Linux+PUIAS+Ascendos&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a]rebuild efforts[/url], some of which had a stated intent to capture such knowledge, but none has really done a good job of documenting the process.

There are guides on building packages from source, such as [url=http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RebuildSRPM]How to Rebuild a Source RPM[/url].

Not a CentOS-5 question, so your thread is moving to Social.

Edit: I see you asked on [url=http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2012-April/008606.html]centos-devel[/url] as well.

dionyself · Post by **dionyself** » 2012/05/03 04:50:06

if you find a full guide, please notify :-)

cnd · Post by **cnd** » 2014/02/08 01:37:18

CentOS is built with NSA /CALEA / etc backdoors - they don't tell you how to rebuild from source, because the backdoors are not in the published source and they don't want you building something that locks them out.

vonskippy · Post by **vonskippy** » 2014/02/08 02:38:08

@cnd Your paranoid delusion about CentOS is a dumb as saying that brain surgeons won't document the procedure to remove a grade IV astrocytoma because they don't want you to know that the government makes them install mind control devices when they do the procedure.

I'm guessing the CentOS dev's don't have a howto on building a complete distro from source because it's a uber complex topic and it would take way too long to document such a process and would result with a bunch of dilettantes asking a bazillion stupid questions.

cnd · Post by **cnd** » 2014/02/08 08:10:51

LOL @vonskippy hasn't read anything Snowden-related yet it seems

Mate - the CentOS guys don't re-do-from-scratch on every release you know. They've got a box someplace, and they click "make' on Friday, and come Monday their distro is ready to go. Yes - it's complex, which is why the complexity is incorporated into the makefiles...

I'm not the only one who's been looking for something like this for *years*, and it never surfaces. Yeah, maybe that's a co-incidence, but when just one of the many places who's job it is to keep backdoors alive has 107,000 employees spending $52bn of budget, and a fraction of their activities from 5 years ago gets leaked, the weight of that evidence alone dwarfs the co-incidence theory pretty damned fast!!

Post by **hughesjr** » 2014/02/08 17:11:44

cnd, you are a real piece of work.

There are no back doors built in ... the Source is all on vault.centos.org and anyone (with any technical know how) can build the entire distro using the SRPMs and mock.

Your comments are absolutely ridiculous.

Please take your trolling somewhere else as this is a serious place for serious posts and not somewhere for bullsh1t accusations from tin foil wearing trolls with IQs lower than their shoe size.

Post by **hughesjr** » 2014/02/08 17:21:43

@rcbandit ... CentOS is now offering the ability for people to join into SIGs and create variants, so another rebuild of CentOS from source is really not necessary.

If you really want to build it from source, you can use any CentOS-5 or CentOS-6 x86_64 install and mock from EPEL to build the whole thing from the Sources listed here:

http://vault.centos.org/6.5/

(or 5.10)

Each repo has a Source/SPackages or SRPMS/ directory in it and you can build the SRPMS in mock.

But rather than having yet another rebuild of RHEL code ... what would better help the community is people getting involved in SIGs / Variants and/or testing and QA of our current builds to make it better.

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