source rpms

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Saturday, September 18, 2004 12:46 AM +0800 Badli Al Rashid 
<badli at cfking.com> wrote:

> the reason i wanted
> to recompile was to optimize the samba for my dual xeon procs :) and this
> was my first try at recompiling using source RPM's.
>
> ps! if someone suggest that im better off using gentoo distribution, sorry
> i dont have all day to recompile the whole os from scratch for my specific
> proc arch, i just need some of the packages to be optimize only:)

An admirable objective. Optimize only what you must. All else just leaves 
you open to optimizer bugs, because that part of the compiler is pretty 
complex (not just for gcc, but for any compiler).

I'd recommend joining the RPM mailing list, where packagers hang out and 
help each other use the RPM tools.

<https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list>

(BTW, if you use the link below to go to the Fedora list page, there a link 
at the bottom of that page to all of Red Hat's lists, which are useful for 
getting more specific help.)