On Saturday 22 October 2005 12:36 pm, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 07:30, Claude Jones wrote: > > I've been looking, and there are lots of pages on how to create a distro. > > Sometimes, it's hard to separate the competent from the wannabes. Do any > > of you who have actually created distros have some reading suggestions > > for a beginner? > > The k12ltsp project rebuilds the fedora and Centos distributions > with addition packages and install options. The procedure must > work well because their rebuilt isos have always been available > very soon after the underlying code releases and included all > base system updates up to the time of the rebuild. See > http://www.k12ltsp.org/phpwiki/index.php/Technical%3ADeveloper%3ABuildHowto > for the procedure. > > > I'm interested in creating a distro that is oriented to graphics > > artists/media professionals - that comes up with the cutting edge > > packages that are being developed, installed and basically configured, > > and provides easy methods for keeping those packages updated as they > > develop. I'm thinking of packages like Cinelerra, Jahshaka, Cinepaint, > > etc, when I say cutting edge, though I'm also open to any suggestions on > > this front. Packages like Inkscape, and the Gimp would be fairly simple > > to include, I presume. I'm welcome to being told, also, that this is too > > ambitious, but if you could give reasons for why this is so, that would > > be great. > > Note that you really don't have to rebuild the base disto to > add packages. You can just put the new packages and any > modified base libraries in a yum repository, add those > to the client yum configuration after installation and > issue a 'yum install ...' command. Subsequent yum updates > will also do the right thing. There are already several > such repositories on the net. However, it is a nice touch > to have a canned package group on the install set and > a yum preconfigured for the additional repository like > the k12ltsp version does it. If you see any educational > value in the packages you want to add, maybe you should > combine forces and maintain packages to for that distro. > Inkscape and scribus are already there and the ltsp part > (to netboot thin clients) doesn't hurt anything even if you > don't use it. > Thanks for the ideas - I'll take a look. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
