Distribution Build System (DBS)

Documentation and software for building linux distributions from a given dist-git.

There are many ways of creating Linux distributions and it appears that each distribution has its own "secret sauce" for bootstrapping and building the base image and I don't like that.

This project is aimed to allow users to create Linux distributions from scratch regardless of the package system.

Steps for creating a distribution

Get CentOS dist-git repositories

Get repository metadata

scripts $ ./sync_distgit.sh

Clone Repositories

scripts $ ./distgit_repos.sh clone

Pull Repositories TODO

scripts $ ./distgit_repos.sh pull

CI/CD Build Pipeline

Requirements:

• Dagger
• NOTE: dagger needs the iptable_nat module: sudo modprobe iptable_nat

Build packages in proper order

The core and base package groups should be built before any package in the dist-git.

• Get the core group package list.

~ $ dnf group info core
...

TODO

Build the other packages

TODO: Automate this task

Build Images

TODO: Create pipeline modules for building ISO, qcow and container images