I just realized I don't think I ever shared the link to my OLF 2024 Rocky Linux is My $HOME presentation on my socials. Enjoy! video.veraciousnetwork.com/w/komgZLGYvY... p.s I remembered by Bluesky login #RockyLinux #Ohio #Linux #OLF2024

I've been learning about functional programming in Python as of late. I've been using the paradigm and new knowledge to refactor my OpenELA import tools. I've noticed a huge improvement in code quality and readability. #python #functionalprogramming #softwaredevelopment

I have a file-backed cache system now. It works similarly to a dictionary in Python, but only stores values in files as JSON. I still need to implement time-stamping. I'm also importing OpenELA sources into Koji from the cache. #linuxengineer #enterprise #linux #openela

So far I have a way to collect metadata on an OpenELA repository then cache it for later use.

I've been working on some tools to help me import OpenELA packages into Koji. I wrote a script in Python to make this easier.

I think I'm getting the SCM part of koji figured out. I got an SRPM to build from Rocky's GitLab. I was missing a way to fetch lookaside sources, so I used Skip Grube's getsrc.sh script for that in the kojid config. #linuxengineer #enterprise #linux #openela

I got the OpenELA sed to build in koji after changing the source link in the spec file and creating the source rpm. #linuxengineer #enterprise #linux #openela

I finally got sed to build. I had to make some adjustments to /etc/mock/sites-defaults.cfg. I also had to figure out what I needed to make the srpm-build and build groups properly. #linuxengineer #enterprise #linux #openela

I think I'm starting to get this figured out. I found some pretty useful Ansible playbooks written by ktdreyer. I had to make some adjustments to the Vagrant file to make it download the correct CentOS Stream image though. It was pointed to a 404 before. #linuxengineer #enterprise #linux #openela

YES!!!! The OpenELA git repo is here!! Time to get serious. github.com/openela-main #linuxengineer #enterprise #linux #openela #linuxfromscratch

While I've been waiting on packages to compile for ELFS I've been playing with xonsh in between builds. Xonsh is a python-powered shell. I don't often use python, but have started growing a liking to it with xonsh. #python #shellscripting #shell #elfs #xonsh #linux #linuxengineer

I'm working on stage 3 of ELFS now. Stage 3 is essentially a rebuild of all the sources in stage 1 without the bootstrapping instructions.

I've been working on the new bootstrap method alongside a couple makefiles to aid me in testing. I'm on stage 2 now and so far things are looking pretty good. #linuxengineer

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I thought this was neat. Apparently RPM uses an rc file that contains macro definitions which are generic and distribution specific. Fedora 34 and Rocky's RPM rc vary wildly. I wonder if this effects how RPM packages are built on the different distributions. access.redhat.com/documentatio...

Rocky Linux now supports m7i instances on the AWS market place images! Both Rocky Linux 8 and 9 are available here: Rocky Linux 8 aws.amazon.com/marketplace/... Rocky Linux 9 aws.amazon.com/marketplace/...

I've been working on a new bootstrap method utilizing portions of all 3 of the ideas I had about reworking the ELFS build notes.

I may have to rework my build instructions. They worked up until I started bootstrapping the rootfs. libffi and python3 have been giving me some issues. I delved deeper to find a majority of the ELFS packages relied too heavily on Fedora's buildroot.

The build process for Standard was pretty standard. 😄 The build notes for the Standard group in ELFS are now finished! The next goal is to bootstrap a chroot environment using the ELFS packages!

I just got the last core packages rebuilt and finished refining the build notes! I've pushed all my changes to the ELFS git repository. ELFS github: github.com/maxbyte9p/elfs

I've made some adjustments to the kernel build to eliminate the need for patching the spec file. I hope building fuse will make it able to compile the self-tests.

I've got Clang building again now on this powerful Google Cloud VM. It's holding up pretty good so far. I Got the stage 3 notes refined last week and I'm now refining stage 4! #linux #openela #linuxfromscratch #rocky

I've been working on refining my ELFS build notes this week. I'm making sure they're reproducible as well and I'm making some tweaks to fix some issues here and there. I'm almost done with stage 3!

The kernel has finally been built! All of Core has now been built from scratch and I'm so excited! I also have released my build notes publicly at github.com/maxbyte9p/elfs

Rust, rust-toolset, and prefixdevname are now finally built! It took a week to get to this point, but I'm pretty happy about it.

Finally got Clang to build! I'm still working on getting Rust to bootstrap. I gotta figure out why it's failing at the beginning of the build.

I can't help, but think of Clang as the Cookie Monster right now. Building Clang takes a lot of memory. I was running into issues with my system crashing because it used all 16 gigabytes of RAM and all 8 gigabytes of swap! To get around this I had to increase my swap to 16 gigabytes.

I'm rebuilding some older versions of the dependencies required for prefixdevname. I've been having issues bootstrapping the newer versions due to version jumps between Fedora and EL. #enterprise #linux #openela #linuxfromscratch #rocky

I'm losing my mind trying to build this one package. Some gcc-toolset-12 components can't be bootstrapped without themselves. Same with clang and Rust. I may have to switch over to slightly older versions of each for it to work.

Were you a presenter at OLF? Were you there, but want to share your favorite talks or watch them again? Did you miss the conference and wonder what it was about? You can find all of the slides and videos of the presentations here! olfconference.org/olf-2023-sli...

I've been working on building some parts of gcc-toolset-12 in order to build some build dependencies for Core in ELFS. It's been a mind boggling experience which requires some patches to spec files in order to accomplish. #enterprise #linux #openela #linuxfromscratch #rockylinux

Hi everyone! 😄 I'm Maxine Hayes! By trade I'm a Linux Systems Administrator and Linux Engineer; by accident I am an open source advocate, open source freeloader, educator and Rocky Linux contributor!