Re: BDI TNG

[Paul <paul.corner-at-tesco.net>]

Hi Dean

A standard RH distro will install loads of useless junk along with the core 
packages - Customising the comps file alleviates this, and whilst editing 
this file, it is a small matter to include the EMC specific packages.
Most of the work involved is in building the kernel, realtime, and EMC 
packages - Rolling the distro is a relatively trivial task afterwards.

I know the extras could just be bundled as a tarball, but the green newbie 
would not have much of an idea of the steps needed to get from a tarball to a 
working EMC. With an RPM, all this can be automated and save a great deal of 
time having to constantly answer the same "how do I" questions.

Kickstart is another way of doing things - It has been considered, but this 
method has it's own pitfalls.

Regards, Paul.

P.S. Wasn't it Brian Pitt doing the Slackware EMC ??

On Wednesday 30 January 2002 2:16 am, Dean L. Hedin wrote:

> Maybe better to have people just install, say, a clean bone-stock RH distro
> and then make your own scripted EMC update CD to load on top of it?
> Sort of like what Pete Cook just posted with the Slackware stuff.