Re: rebuilding rpms

[Samuel Flory]

Mertens Bram wrote:

Hi,

The "Maximum rpm" document contains only very little information about
rebuilding rpms.

Most rpms are build for the i386 architecture, I run my RH7.3 on an
i686, does it make much sense to rebuild rpms before installing them?

The i686, and i386 are simply tags. There is no magic rpm option that will turn on optimizations. Some rpms are setup to configure the package differently if you compile a package under the i686 arch.

If I understand the manual correctly I would have to download the
src.rpm then run the command rpm --rebuild xxx.src.rpm which would
install the software after optimising it for the i686 architecture.

Or isn't it that simple?

Nope. You'd need to either modify the default gcc options, and/or the spec for each rpm. For most things it's not worth your while.




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