Sparc pure64

Now that I am happy with all the spec files used to create the RPMs for my system I am now starting the Sparc64 build again. This time I am using CLFS svn instead of my previous method of slowly replacing the Ubuntu install with my RPMs. This proved to be a disaster due to Ubuntu’s Sparc64 OS lack of 64bit. I ended up with 32bit programs linking to 64bit libraries and killing the system. I hope to have this build finished by the end of the week so I will let you know how it goes.

Not long now

The OS is coming along and should be finished pretty soon. It’s based on LFS SVN-20080327 with some customisation such as having ZSH as the default shell and the RPM package manager. The Sparc64 build has been abandoned for now to allow the x86 build to be finished. The spec files used to create the RPMs can be used on any architecture. This means that one all the spec files are made for the x86 build they can be used again for the Sparc64 build, so once the temperately OS is built and in place the computer can be left on running a script to build all the RPMS.

Once all the used packages have been built I will look into a way of creating all the miscellaneous files used in the system. After that I purpose that an installer system would be the next logical step but seeing as how this OS is made for my purposes I might not make one.