squeak linux woes

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Fri Jul 18 04:33:45 UTC 2003


<Jim.Gettys at hp.com> wrote:
> If the source RPM had been made available, doing this might have been
> as easy as doing a "rpmbuild --rebuild", but I never saw one lying around.
> Generally, it is a good idea to post the source RPM as well as the binary;
> that lets people rebuild for other architectures Linux runs on easily,
> and/or optimize for Athlon/686 if they care about speed.


It is wonderful if people can release an RPM for each version of RedHat
that is in common use.  Bert mentioned doing the rebuilds automatically.
 I wonder if anyone has worked out the details of this in a way we can
reuse for Squeak?  It would seem to require chroot plus having a copy of
each distribution lying around, but at "only" a hundred or two megabytes
each, this is doable nowadays.


Lex



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