On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at 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