On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
James Olin Oden wrote:
I think the salient points are:
* RedHat distros today don't self host. * Some customers desire that the distro could self host.
Maybe the number of customers that desire this are too small to worry about, versus the cost of meeting their perceived needs. Maybe, solving the problem is really hard. None of that changes the above two facts; it only places them in a context.
Do you know how the other distributions handle this? Obviously, gentoo was designed with end-user source rebuilds in mind and the *bsd's got it right eons ago, but what about debian, ubuntu, etc.
I've no idea how others do this. I would likely have tools in place to do source annalysis to figure out when most things need to be rebuilt. Also, after each package is built I would probably have a build all happen just make sure things still build. Only need the one package, unless there is a problem with the build all. Probably, this view is too simplistic though. Sadly, I only know that self-hosting is important to me; I don't know how to get there.
...james