Re: [Ltib] how to create a stand alone iso?

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Anirudh,

Yes you can, but you should not be checking in content (e.g. stuff from
the GPP like tarballs) into CVS.  You cannot by definition source code
manage them.  Also you should not be making a CVS of a CVS, this is a
recipe for a disaster, you'll never be able to get support for this as
I'd have no idea what you have.

To download anything currently referenced by your LTIB configuration
without building run:

$ ./ltib --dlonly

To make an iso image you can run:

$ ./ltib -m release

You may need to use:

$ ./ltib -m trelease

To defeat some of the checking mechanisms.  I've not tried to make an
ISO from Savannah before.

However this only works if the content is on the GPP and in Savannah
CVS. If not, you'll have to provide a MANIFEST file, take a look at
bin/Ltibrelease.pm to get an idea of what is going.  I've checked a file
into CVS for generating the MANIFEST file, run it with:

$ bin/cvsmanifest > MANIFEST

You will then need to edit that file to prune/add files that you want to
go into the released ISO image.  Note this ISO image will also included
any package content (it gets put into a pkgs directory).


Regards, Stuart

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 11:49 +0530, Anirudh Venkataramanan wrote:
> is it possible to download all source tar balls and patches from gpp
> once and create a stand alone iso that wont download from GPP? I would
> like to do this so that I can baseline ltib and upload it to my CVS.
> 
> If possible, can anyone please suggest how?
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Anirudh Venkataramanan
> 
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