Re: [Ltib] LTIB: distribute prebuilt host RPM packages (rpm-fs, git, distcc, ...)

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Gernot,

It's not really practical to provide pre-built rpms for the host support
packages.  The reason is that they need to be built so they run reliably
on each distribution.  For example if you tried to run a pre-built
binary linked with gcc4 on a gcc3 machine, it's going to fail.  By
building the host packages from scratch is able to be installed on
pretty much any distribution.

In your case, if you know that each VM/install is on the same host
distribution, you could build it once and then tar up /opt/ltib and then
untar that with your script as part of the install process.

Regards, Stuart

Gernot Hillier wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> I'm currently trying to use LTIB for an in-house development project
> based on the Freescale MPC837x platform.
> 
> In general, LTIB adapts pretty well to our work split - however one
> small issue remains:
> 
> For internal deployment of LTIB, I wrote a small shell script which
> unpacks LTIB, adds some patches for our platform (I'll share them here
> soon) along with a basic number of packages for the LPP and finally
> calls ./ltib.
> 
> This works well - however every colleague (or VM...) using it has to
> wait something like 15-30 minutes on the first call as every instance
> wants to roll its own binary packages like rpm-fs, git, distcc, etc.
> 
> So it would be very helpful if I could provide LTIB with some path where
> to find prebuilt RPMs. It's very easy to provide an additional path for
> the LPP - but I found no simple way to add own prebuilt RPMs somewhere.
> Did I overlook something?
> 
> Any input will be greatly appreciated!
>