On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, James Olin Oden wrote:
Yes.
Now along this sortid trail of email messages, there was mention that some packages no longer build with the current compilers. Is that not the case, or was that a mis-statement?
Because, it sounds Fedora at this point is self-hosting by that description, and if RedHat follows that practice it too will be self hosting.
I do not know for rhel5. I'm not involved in building rhel5 so I can't tell you one way or the other about that.
I know that we completed a bump and rebuild in fedora 11/rawhide as of feb 25 2009. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
And unless I'm missing something it is correct that fedora 11/rawhide is self hosting.
All of the processes and programs that fedora uses to build its distro are public and available. There are a number of secondary architectures now which are rebuilding from scratch. Two that come to mind are arm and sparc.
I hope this helps. I'm sorry I can't tell you much about rhel, I just don't have any firsthand experience in how the internal build process works.
-sv