>
> I have another concern: aside from being an update freak, I've got this
> "thing" for recompiling my RPMs from their respective SRPMs with optimized
> GCC CFLAGS. So far so good. Is there any counterpart to these SRPMs that
> will basically allow me to rebuild a package with slight modifications
> (CFLAGS, in this case) without having to rethink how the packager would
> have packaged a particular software from its tarball? With RPMs we rely on
> a SPEC file for these packaging instructions, anything for Debian
> packages?
The /var/lib/rpm/rpmrc can contain the macros needed for optimizations, so you
don't need to depend on the spec file hard coding them for you.
For instance, standard MDK setups have CFLAGS contain the pentiumpro
optimizations by default (if your CPU is of course >= Celeron.
This is not true for redhat, as they still base themselves on i386. (although i
think they have a version of their distro with optimizations for higher intel
CPUs)
IMHO, The mdk packaging team is more "agressive" wrt:
1. providing packages (and updates) for more packages than redhat will ever be
2. is more willing to try out experimental options in the kernel (like the IDE
patches of Andre, Reiserfs, etc.)
3. is more willing to try out experimental software (like they were one of the
first to use PGCC as a default in their distro).
... Sometimes at the expense of stability. But if it works for you, then you
are in luck. If not, then there's always redhat.
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