On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:45:57AM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
> I'm just curious, what's the fastest computer any ILUGer has care of?
>> I suggest answers by way of "it takes only X time for me to rebuild
> Fedora Core 2's glibc SRPM for i486"[1] would be an appropriate way
> to determine this[2].
>> 1. rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i486 .../path/to/glibc-2.3.3-27.src.rpm
>> 2. Obviously, i'll need access to the resulting RPMs to verify the
> claims..
WHy on earth would dirty a great machine by letting something as nasty
as rpm near it ;) But seriously, come up with a generic test!
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