Rebuilding packages

[Marian POPESCU]

Hi,

WipeOut wrote:

> Most packages for most distro's seem to be compiled for i386.. Obviously
> this is for comparibility with older systems but surely this has a
> performance implication..
> 
There is the case for some applications, but not for all ...

> So the question is..
> 1.Does anyone rebuild their Fedora RPM's from SRPM's for i686 or
> pentium4 or athon-xp??
Yes

> 2. If you do, where can I find how to do it?? (or is is simply by typing
> "rpmbuild --rebuild package.srpm" )
rpmbuild --rebuild package.src.rpm --target=athlon

> 3 Is there any advantage to doing this? (specifically for server
> packages eg Apache, MySQL, PHP)
maybe a small code execution speed increase

Good luck,
Marian