Mandrake a la Gentoo

[jlc]

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/tutorials/lin...kster.php?CID=2

 

Has anyone tried this?

 

I've tried creating the .rpmrc and .rpmmacros files but it doesn't seem to work.

 

Anyone work out a better step by step for this process?

[beesea]

so what exactly is the problem? do rpms not rebuild at all, do they not build with your specified optflags, or something else? i haven't tried using optflags in my .rpmrc, but i have no problem building rpms. check the mandrake rpm howto to verify that your .rpmrc and .rpmmacros files are good

[jlc]

I guess it would have helped if I dropped some info in.

 

The files look good, but there not rebuilding to my standards. Instead of Athlon, it appears to be using the old i586 initial setup.

[johnnyv]

so you added a new line to the rpmrc file? like athlonxp or changed the athlon line?

 

as root did you:

rpm --rebuild --target athlon *.src.rpm

 

?

It works for me, i changed the existing athlon line adding flags for athlon-xp in the rpmrc file.

[jlc]

So you created the .rpmrc file and just use:

 

--target athlon

 

And that will do the trick? I'll have to give it a try when I can.

[jlc]

Let me clear that up a little more, which route did you go?

 

/usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc vs. /etc/rpmrc vs. ~/.rpmrc

[johnnyv]

i did the /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc file.

[beesea]

my ~/.rpmrc looks like:

optflags: i586 -march=pentium3 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe



buildarchtranslate: i386: i586

buildarchtranslate: i486: i586

buildarchtranslate: i586: i586

buildarchtranslate: i686: i586

for an athlon (i think) it should look something like:

optflags: athlon -march=athlon -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe



buildarchtranslate: i386: athlon

buildarchtranslate: i486: athlon

buildarchtranslate: i586: athlon

buildarchtranslate: i686: athlon

[jlc]

Nothing seems to work except to put the:

 

rpm --rebuild --target athlon *.src.rpm

[Guest fubar::chi]

sorry i've been out for a while but i did do this (and get it to work).

I wouldn't mess with any of the default setup's like johnnyv did or build as root since the ~/files will work.

All you have to do is put in your options -march=athlon-xp (if you have just athlon then -march=athlon) and then add whatever you want to .rpm* files. I added a different company name when i built mine just so i could distinguish between them in kpackage.

When building put in the --target athlon flag (not --target=athlon-xp like i did) and it will build for an athlon-xp and use the .rpmrc settings.