--On Tuesday, March 08, 2005 06:35:24 PM -0500 Matthew Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's several problems with it, though. First, as Derek notes, you > can't build i586 and i686 kernels Hasn't been relevant for us; we have nothing below i686 (and don't run AFS in the boot kernels). It takes a long time to build for i386 and i586 when they're never going to be used... We build x86_64 on another box. > Second, and even more troubling to me, you don't get repeatable > builds. If you switch your update build machine, you might lose track > of all of the kernels you're trying to support. More troubling to me is having to repackage the kernel build source; it's far easier for me to have a script that makes sure all of the kernel packages we're interested in are installed on the box before building AFS (or other kernel-dependent software). > And, bugs in the current version of RPM itself make rpm operations > very, very slow if you have large numbers of the same package > installed. Maybe so, but it's not been an issue. This may very well be one of those I-don't-like-the-way-you-do-it and You-don't-like-the-way-I-do-it issues; which is fine. Derek will have to figure out which approach is best for the standard RPMs. Gotta go, Rudy _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info