Installing Fedora through source rpms?

Tue Jul 27 13:20:11 UTC 2004

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:11:14 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:

> Some time back, minn-tarot1024 at mailblocks.xxx 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.

Not really. You could rpmbuild --rebuild --target ... the src.rpms
with a reconfigured %optflags value, e.g. via /usr/lib/rpm/*-linux/
and most packages should accept the different RPM_OPT_FLAGS just
fine.

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