Baseline build project progress.

[Gerald Carter]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote:

> I've found a simpler solution - VMWare. I can set up a bunch of virtual
> machines with known baseline environments to do the builds. Over the
> next couple weeks I'll be trying a couple of test builds using the
> standard build procedure available from your web site.

Use a non-persistent disk on the VMware session.  I do all my RPM builds 
this way.

> Once I've got the process down pat, I'd like to make a few changes in
> the packaging for Red Hat linux distributions. I intend to make the
> packages generated one-for-one replacements for the original Red Hat
> packages. With the understanding that I'll be doing the work, does
> anybody have violent objections with my continuing with this project?

I can't remember all the details so remind me....
Are you proposing to generate samba-common, samba-client, et. al.?




cheers, jerry
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