[GLLUG] Compiling Linux & Distros

[Richard Houser]

Avoid rebuilding everything yourself if possible.  Find a well maintained distro that is close, and use a compatible build infrastructure to rebuild and package or simply patch the parts you need.  At work, this is about 200 packages, but I run more modern stuff at home, so that is usually under 30.  Add a single package to setup you overriding repo and it's very much like your own distro without the needless work.

On January 28, 2014 3:14:57 PM EST, Mike <mgoppold5 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Anybody compiled a linux distro before?  How difficult?  What languages
>
>are used?  Any web links to the tools/documentation?
>
>For example.  I'm familiar with Linux from scratch, LFS.  nALFS is a 
>small C program which reads an XML profile.  "alfs" is a new program 
>which is not done yet.  These tools use commands directly from LFS book
>
>data.
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