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You will also need a lot of bandwidth to download about '''700MB''' of rpm packages and Sugar activity bundles.
 
You will also need a lot of bandwidth to download about '''700MB''' of rpm packages and Sugar activity bundles.
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== Initial setup ==
== How to create a build ==
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=== First time preparation ===
      
* Checkout our top-level build system
 
* Checkout our top-level build system
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   make
 
   make
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* Do '''not''' do <tt>make install</tt> even though the original README recommends it. It's useless and may lead to confusion.
    
* Generate initial sequence number for the builds
 
* Generate initial sequence number for the builds
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   echo 42 >buildnr-dx
 
   echo 42 >buildnr-dx
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=== Daily routine ===
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== Creating a build ==
    
* Build (have a look at the available configuration files):
 
* Build (have a look at the available configuration files):
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* Wait 15-20 minutes
 
* Wait 15-20 minutes
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* Serve hot
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* If everything goes well, your new build can be found in <tt>build/output</tt>. Serve hot.
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Of course, a number of things will go wrong the first time. Error output could be misleading and
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obscure due to nesting of several tools: olpc-os-builder, imgcreate and yum. Before you dig into
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code, you may want to ask on IRC in case someone has already seen the same problem.
     

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