non-self hosting question

[Christopher McCrory <chrismcc pricegrabber com>]

Hello...

Do'h, resending on non-beta list.


	Since RHEL3 is non-self hosting, what is the best way to compile
packages for it?

e.g.  I use spamass-milter to bridge sendmail to spammassassin.  the
milter requires sendmail-devel to compile.

My solution is to have my own "build machine" with a full install.  On
this machine I rebuilt sendmail.src.rpm and installed the sendmail-devel
rpm to fulfill my milter requirement.

Is there a better way?

Does/will RedHat provide customer access to an official build machine? 
At what level of support?

Or, is there an official build host spec?



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