need advice on building packages from source
Hi,
I played around w/ gentoo a few months ago (and promptly came back to
debian (i missed apt) ). But i do miss the optimization i experienced
w/ gentoo (despite what everyone says, there was a very noticeable
difference in performance on my machine between debian and gentoo), so i
did some searching and found this stuff on debianplanet:
<debianplanet>
There have been several discussions about building Debian from source. I
hacked together a script today that will rebuild all installed packages
-- it's written in perl and operates very smoothly.
The URL for my script is
http://www.rootshell.be/~kp2sushi/source_builder.pl
<http://www.rootshell.be/%7Ekp2sushi/source_builder.pl>.
*Robot101*: Yes, the idea of building everything from source has been
discussed before here <http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=452>,
here <http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=675>, here
<http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=521>, here
<http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=271>, and here
<http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=591>. The general consensus
is that it's a bit of a time-waster except for building optimised
versions of a handful of CPU intensive packages such as bzip, gzip ,
mozilla and glibc. After woody releases, we may see support for this
added to dpkg and apt, allowing a few select packages to ship with
optimised versions where appropriate.
</debianplanet>
I dont' really want to build everything from source (that takes way too
long on my k6-2), but i was thinking maybe compiling glibc, moz,
(g|bz)ip, etc might be a good thing... what would be the best way to go
about this?
Thanks,
Cameron Matheson
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