On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 01:17:27PM +0000, Jonathan Aquilina via Beowulf wrote: > I should give LFS a try but I always tend to get stuck somewhere. > > I need to figure out how to clone the fedora or centos package repos to at > least get myself started I think. >
Fedora provide a script to clone Fedora - Fedora is _large_. EPEL is 190G of packages and I use the Fedora quick-fedora-mirror shell script to mirror it. Requires zsh, rsync and python - from memory. CentOS is 222G - I use a Debian ftpsync to get that current four times a day. That includes 7.9, 8.3 (and 8.2 currently, though that should disappear soon) and CentOS Streams. [There's a mirror sat next to me on the desk: feel free to ping me if you want further and better details as above.] Andy Cater > Regards, > Jonathan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Beowulf <beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org> On Behalf Of Michael Di Domenico > Sent: 10 December 2020 14:13 > Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] [External] RIP CentOS 8 [EXT] > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 8:05 AM Jonathan Aquilina <jaquil...@eagleeyet.net> > wrote: > > > > A fork is something im thinking about doing in all fairness. Hoping to > > start soon on it. Need to at this point figure out how to clone the > > repositories and start my own testing etc. > > Anyone know what the bare minimum you need in terms of packages installed > > to get going with a core OS and then can slowly build on top of? > > honestly, I hope it works out. i often think about using the LFS project and > rolling my entirely own distro. there's a lot of garbage in all these > distros (and software/libraries), i would love to strip > it all out. the shift in centos mantra has definitely left a vacuum > in the market. > > as for pkg counts, i suspect you're number is ~600 or so. i strip the rhel > based hpc image i build at work from the kickstart @Core group with > additional subtractions (stupid firmware/etc rpms) and then build up from > there with the things i definately need. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To > change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
