[Beowulf] Building new cluster - estimate
Matt Lawrence
matt at technoronin.com
Thu Aug 7 20:52:55 PDT 2008
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Joe Landman wrote:
> Hmmm... I normally recommend avoiding their spec file unless you want to use
> only their kernel and do minor tweaks from there.
>
> This said, I really recommend using
>
> make binrpm-pkg
>
> to generate the kernel/modules RPM and SRPM. Then the grub update and the
> mkinitrd can be scripted. If you are daring, you can include those scripts
> in the %post sections of the generated spec file (the make binrpm-pkg will
> generate a spec file for you).
I really would like to have it all in one package. It's too easy to get
things out of sync when doing changes by hand. I was figuring to find the
appropriate sections of the CentOS spec file and use them. As always,
other suggestions are welcome.
-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.
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