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Re: CentOS support

 

Just made this, hopefully it helps :-)

http://anvil.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/dev_notes/architecture.html


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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