Re: non-self hosting question

[Clifford Perry <cperry rackspace com>]

I cant give a RedHat answer :) sooo.. 

This is best answered by yourself, the environment and resources
(hardware) that you have available to you. Obviously I think everyone
can see that RedHat did not provide a complete solution in a box all
nicely pre compiled. Quite a few -devel rpms were not included which you
can recompile from source rpm to get, etc. I would say recompile src
rpms as needed, keep the binary rpms in some central location for future
needs and just install and grab via up2date what you need as you go
along. 

I personally do not have a dedicated 365 days of the year 'build'
machine, but I can get a server in a state ready to rebuild anything
needed within 10 minutes via kickstart, meaning I can use the same
'beefy' server for multiple OS's.

I would say as long as your 'build' machine as all/most of the 'devel'
rpms as found within the following groups 'Development Tools',
'Development Libraries', 'Kernel Development' & 'Legacy Software
Development' you should find you have a good base system to use for
almost anything. Then up2date and rpmbuild become your friend (along
with your resource of previously rebuild software as needed). 

Cliff. 

> Message: 4
> Subject: non-self hosting question
> From: Christopher McCrory <chrismcc pricegrabber com>
> To: taroon-list redhat com
> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:36:22 -0700
> Reply-To: taroon-list redhat 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?
> 
> --
> Christopher McCrory
>  "The guy that keeps the servers running"
> 
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