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Building ROCK Linux
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1. Requirements
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For building ROCK Linux you need a good internet connection for downloading the
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sources, a lot of disk space, a fast computer and some time. Depending on the
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configuration you are going to choose and your hardware, a build of ROCK Linux
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can take some days to complete. You also need root permissions to build ROCK
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Linux.
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The distribution you are building ROCK Linux on should also be ROCK Linux.
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It is also possible to build ROCK Linux on other distributions, but don't expect
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it to work without some hacking ...
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If you are building on older ROCK Linux versions (1.4/1.6) you should at least
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make sure to upgrade/install the packages "Curl" "mktemp" and "coreutils".
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2. Extracting the sources
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Download the ROCK Linux sources (a tar.bz2 file of a few MB) from
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www.rocklinux.org and extract it somewhere as root. The resulting directory
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is the ROCK Linux 'base' directory.
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3. Configure the build
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Type './scripts/Config' and a configuration menu comes up. Choose
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your configuration (or simply leave the default values untouched). You need to
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start the Config tool - even if you don't want to change anything.
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It's also possible to have multiple configurations. Use the command
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'./scripts/Config -cfg config-name' (where config-name can be any text not
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containing whitespaces or any special characters). If you have choosen a name
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for your configuration, you need to pass the '-cfg config-name' option as
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first parameter to all the other scripts too - so they know which
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configuration to read.
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The default configuration name (when no -cfg option is passed) is 'default'.
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The configuration is stored in the 'config/config-name' directory.
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4. Downloading the package sources
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Now you need to download the sources for the packages which are build in the
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configuration you have choosen. Simply type './scripts/Download -required'.
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If you want to download the sources for all packages (regardless if they are
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required for your configuration), type './scripts/Download -all'.
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5. Building the distribution
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Type './scripts/Build-Target'. As mentioned already, it may take multiple
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days for the build to complete.
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The resulting distribution is stored in the build/ directory.
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6. Creating CD Images
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To create a CD-Image to install from you can use './scripts/Create-ISO'.
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Create-ISO takes at least two arguments: a name used as prefix for the
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filename of the ISO images and the name of the configuration you
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just built (usually 'default' or whatever you choose after -cfg).
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Optionally you can use -size <MB> to specify the size of your CD-Rs.
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Another optional parameter is -mkdebug which will create a VMWare-Config
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to be used with your newly created iso.
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The iso will, however, not be bootable, unless you configured and built
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a 'bootdisk'-Target. This configuraton has to be the first configuration to
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be passed to './scripts/Create-ISO'.
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So, a complete call might look like this:
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# ./scripts/Create-ISO rock-cd -size 700 -mkdebug bootdisk athlon pentium4 generic
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This would create a CD-Set of iso images which are at most 700 MB big, the
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first CD would be bootable and the set would contain the builds 'athlon',
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'pentium4' and 'generic'.
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You see, it's perfectly possible to have several optimised or just different
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builds on one CD-Set. So you would only need one set to install different
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machines.
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If you have a DVD-Writer, you could also pass '-size 4300' and write that iso
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on a DVD. That would make approx. 5 to 6 builds on one DVD.
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7. Cleaning up the source tree
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Simply type './scripts/Cleanup' to remove the src* directories. DO NOT REMOVE
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THEM BY HAND! These directories may contain bind mounts to the rest of the
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source tree and it is possible that you are going to remove everything in the
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ROCK Linux base directory if you execute a simple 'rm -rf' to remove them ..
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If you also want to remove the build/ directory type './scripts/Cleanup --full'.
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