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[Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxx>]

I started creating the following:

https://anvil.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/dev_notes/addingowndistro.html#diving-in

Hope it helps and can get even better.

-Josh


On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Daniel Mercer <dmercer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi Heling,
>
> I've recently gotten anvil running on OEL6.x, Oracle's rebranding of RHEL.
> The smithy bash script has a bit of bootstrapping code intended to get
> enough of the immediate dependencies for anvil itself to take over. If you
> look at it you should see the bit of code that attempts to identify the OS
> it is running on around the line '
>
> TYPE=$(lsb_release -d | cut  -f 2)
>
> Once Anvil has bootstrapped and started it does a pretty fair job of using
> the files in conf/distros/ to get deps in place. The rhel.yaml file almost
> works, though you may need to add a few of the python/pip deps that have
> cropped up recently.
>
> I have a patch or two to the smithy wrapper that would make it easier to
> add bootstrap logic for additional OS targets. The code is pretty trivial,
> but if there is interest I can submit them for review.
>
> Good luck & keep the questions coming. Anvil is a great tool.
>
> dlm
>
> On Nov 25, 2012, at 6:04 PM, Heling Yao <yaoheling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since CentOS is very similar to RHEL, it should be very easy to get
> anvil running on top of it. How should I go about getting anvil running on
> CentOS 6.3?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Heling Yao
> >
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