[ILUG] ppro linux

[Patrick Dempster]

Did you ever get this to work ?

>   Does anyone know how hard it would be to install a box with 
>  a standard
>  distro, then recompile from source packages every package on 
>  the box, with
>  specific optimisation flags (-mpentiumpro -fschedule-insns 
>  -O3 -s come to
>  mind).
>  
>   Some thing like:
>  
>   packages=`rpm -qa`
>   for package in $packages ; do
>      wget http://redhatmirror/directory/$package\*srpm
>      CFLAGS="-mpentiumpro -fschedule-insns -O3 -s" rpm -ta 
>  --clean ${package}*
>      rpm --install /usr/src/RedHat/RPMS/${package}*
>      rm /usr/src/RedHat/RPMS/${package}*
>      rm *srpm
>   done
>  
>   Could something like that be made to work ?