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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.
== Initial setup ==
== How to create a build ==
* Checkout our top-level build system
* Checkout our top-level build system
make
make
* 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
echo 42 >buildnr-dx
echo 42 >buildnr-dx
=== Daily routine ===
== Creating a build ==
* Build (have a look at the available configuration files):
* Build (have a look at the available configuration files):
* Wait 15-20 minutes
* Wait 15-20 minutes
* Serve hot
* If everything goes well, your new build can be found in <tt>build/output</tt>. Serve hot.
Of course, a number of things will go wrong the first time. Error output could be misleading and
obscure due to nesting of several tools: olpc-os-builder, imgcreate and yum. Before you dig into
code, you may want to ask on IRC in case someone has already seen the same problem.