Re: [Cooker] urpmi --auto-select + recompile from src.rpm

[Stefan van der Eijk]

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering, if there is some way to upgrade (or install) new
> packages form src.rpm source packages, rather than from precompiled
> i586.rpm packages, with the ease urpmi provides, so that one could fully
> benefit from his/her CPU.
>
>
> "urpmi --auto-selects" can only be used to upgrade precompiled packages,
> and won't help much if someone wants to update whole system from source
> src.rpm packages.
>
>
> What I mean, if there is some script, that would download new src.rpm
> packages from let's say cooker, recompile them for a given architecture,
> and than install.
>
> Doing this manually is somewhat long, slow, monotonous...
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomasz Chmielewski

Perhaps slbd may suite your needs...

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/SlBd

regards,

Stefan