[MythDora] mythdora for RHEL5

[Ryan Pisani]

> Jarod Wilson wrote:
>
>> My name seems to be bouncing about to and fro here, with regard to
>> things that may or may not have been said and/or qualified/quantified in
>> ambiguous and/or disambiguous ways... Or something. :)
>>
> Yes, but always with luv!  ;-)
> It's the kind of attention Hillary and Rudy would die for.
>
>> So I'll rehash it all:
>>
>> Getting pungi to work on FC6 was a bit of work, which required
>> back-porting stuff from pre-F7 rawhide. I'd originally suspected similar
>> work required to make pungi work on RHEL5.
>>
>> Well, we (Red Hat) have since had a request come in from a customer for
>> a working pungi on RHEL5. I took a look at doing the same song and dance
>> I went through for FC6, and quickly determined that there was no way in
>> hell we could push that on a customer, so I sat down and talked with the
>> primary pungi author (Jesse Keating) about how we could go about
>> producing a working pungi fork for RHEL5.
>>
>> After a bit of hacking between Jesse and myself last week, I'm now able
>> to produce a functional RHEL5 respin ISO set pointing our pungi (forked
>> off the latest hg pungi) at only stock RHEL5 bits. There are a few
>> things left to touch up here and there, but yeah, we're pretty close to
>> a RHEL5-based, Myth-infused ISO spin being a fairly trivial thing to do.
>>
> That begs two questions.
> You seem to be suggesting that MythRHEL could be spun off RHEL5 in
> exactly the same way Centos was spun off, by removing RH proprietary
> material and substituting original replacements.  Is that correct?

I believe pungi is only going to spin the ISOs off of available binaries.
So the easiest route to a spin would be to use CentOS as it's built from
RHEL source. Technically to make a non-Centos based RHEL5 spin it'd
require rebuilding all the source packages and then rolling the distro
with Pungi. So the easiest route would be to go with Centos.

Thanks being said. I don't think it'd be of value to have a split distro
one  of Fedora and one of Enterprise class linux. If RHEL5 is mature
enough for the features that are required for mythtv then maybe a shift
should be made with MythDora to move to an RHEL baseline. The only long
term benefit of this shift would be extended security / errata that FC
abandons in place of new versions.

>
> Is a custom build of pungi built in response to a paying customer's
> request still open source, or is it RH proprietary?  I know how IBM
> would view that but how does RH see it?
> Chris
>
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