CLUEnix [was Re: [CLUE-Cert] Next meeting]

[Dennis J Perkins]

> Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> > Because we can. :)  Actually, we went thru the Linux From Scratch book 
> > and learned how things fit together.  The next step seemed to be trying 
> > to build our own little distro.  Admittedly, it will be a lot of work 
> > and is obviously not for most people.  But it's fun.
> 
> I figured, and it probably is fun.  I would be more interested in 
> learning how to build packages for "my favorite distro," or perhaps how 
> "my favorite distro's" installer works.  A little like the difference 
> between learning how Linux works and writing your own Posix kernel.
> 
> But since I hardly ever make meetings, most of you are probably more 
> interested in something other than my opinions. ;-)
> 
> Dave
> 
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CLUEnix?  Hmm.  We did wonder what to call it.  Jeff, what do you think?

Well, you could learn how to build an installer but it would be specific to 
what we do.  I do know that text-based installers are using dialog or cdialog 
to ask questions and I have found two programs that I hope will work for 
testing hardware.  I know how I want to do part of the build engine.

I've never built .RPM or .deb packages.  If you are using gentoo, I think I 
know roughly what it does, but I don't know how it handles dependencies.  I 
might need to install it just to explore its package manager.

At this stage, opinions are very welcome.  We are just getting started.