From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Kingdon To: cagney@cygnus.com Cc: ac131313@cygnus.com, tromey@cygnus.com, overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: A cvsup account.. Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:13:00 -0000 Message-ID: <200003212213.RAA16571@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <38D70215.50EEE1D0@cygnus.com> <200003211610.IAA03336@ferrule.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q1/msg00067.html Message-ID: <20000321141300.stsQ4AdIIwEHdMlyOn7uml91MX9N1PLRdAWvP25b_8Q@z> > The reason for thinking about doing a local build is that it would be in > line with Jasons approach when getting sourceware started - always have > the source - always have a way of building the source. Well, with RPM packages from the usual places you have the source, it is just in the source RPM rather than the binary RPM. >From my point of view it is pretty silly to be building things like Apache, wu-ftpd, or Kerberos from source when people elsewhere in Red Hat are already doing the exact same thing for the Linux product. There are going to be exceptions here and there, of course, but as a general rule/goal I'd like to run unhacked code and get our changes (when needed) merged back in upstream. I'd be glad to offer some kind of RPM tutorial (including building from source) if lack of familiarity is the issue but it might be just as easy to point to http://www.rpm.org/ . CVSup, of course, is a whole different case because the source is in Modula-3. But I'm trying to play "someone else's issue" on that one ;-).