[wplug] Building redhat from source

[Vanco, Donald]

bgtrio at yahoo.com wrote:
> Is it not possible to rebuild a redhat install entirely from the
> source rpms, and optimize for your machine?
	No - the .src RPMS have .spec files that are generally <ahem>
optimized for i386

> Anyone out there interested in helping me write a script to do this,
> or better yet even done something like this before?
Try this:
cd /dir/with/src/rpms
rpmbuild --ba *.rpm

	...but it really gains you nothing over installing Red Hat's already
compiled binaries.  There may be a way to unpack each src RPM and tweak the
spec file for alternate architectures (e.g. i686), but that would take
longer than installing Gentoo! (not to mention require a couple TB in disk
space to actually unpack & build against all the RPMs)

Don

> 
> On 23 May 2003, John Strange wrote:
> 
>> Well,
>> 
>> My first few times with the system was very time consuming, which is
>> why I uninstalled it.  After going back to redhat it felt SO slow
>> that I had to switch back eventually. 
>> 
>> When I first build the system I usually do the emerge overnight, and
>> unless you're building on an older machine it doesn't take that long
>> to build while you are afk. 
>> 
>> The best way I found to emerge things like X was using things like
>> gnome, emerge -p gnome would do X, and quite a few other things in
>> one big fell swooop.  Emerge is rough around the edges, but so was
>> everything else in the beginning.
>> 
>> Be careful on going back to redhat, to me it's not the drive space
>> bloat that kills me, it's the unresponsiveness I feel from when I've
>> installed redhat vs. gentoo.  Redhat back in the days of redhat 4.2
>> felt snappy, it's lost that snappy feeling but with gentoo even
>> running gnome/kde feels snappy once again. 
>> 
>> Of course this is totally IMHO.
>> 
>> On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 14:24, Vanco, Donald wrote:
>>> 	Just wondering - how long did it take you Gentoo users out there to
>>> get to a system that (reasonably) had all the functionality you
>>> were looking for.  For me, the honeymoon is somewhat over - I am
>>> happy to consider the relative bloat of a, say, Red Hat install in
>>> exchange for the days of emerging I'm doing currently. 
>>> 
>>> 	I will say that it's been an awesome learning experience, but
>>> there's still some rough edges to the emerge process that can
>>> result in a little bloat (like chromium requiring kdelibs (USE flag
>>> is _not_ set) - wassup with that).  I just don't have days to
>>> compile..... I've been working on this thing on and off here at
>>> work, and it's taken at least a week of attention to get to the
>>> point where I have X, fluxbox, and a few games & apps.... 
>>> 
>>> Don
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