Installing Fedora through source rpms?

[VJ]

First you can install what you want and then compile the packages from SRPMs
and then install them with rpm --i --force option. This is what I do
normally. I recompile X (XFree86 in old days and now xorg) for athlon
architecture. Also if time permits I re-compile kde specific rpms too.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Wilkinson" <james at westexe.demon.co.uk>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: Installing Fedora through source rpms?


> Some time back, minn-tarot1024 at mailblocks.com wrote:
> > Is it possible to build/install fedora 2 from source rpms so that we
> > can optimize the binary, just like Gentoo?
>
> Not easily.
>
> You'd be looking at taking each source RPM, modifying the configuration
> inside that SRPM, and running rpmbuild on it.
>
> It's possible, but it's not particularly automated.
>
> James.
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