Feature changed by: Tim Edwards (tk83) Feature #312756, revision 7 Title: Installing openSUSE Distro with YAST from source openSUSE Distribution: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) reject reason: Testing and bug reporting are challenges, let's tune the most critical parts instead. Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Elmar Haag (hans_linux) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I would like to see a installation option in YAST that would allow me to install update a installed system from source. Maybe using the following steps: 1.) Do a normal install from the distribution DVD or a Network install and configure the system as required. 2.) Optionally download the sources for each library and application, compile with user specified complier flags, such as CFLAGS="-mtune=native - march=native -O3", MAKEOPTS="-j5" etc. 3.) Replace the original vanilla libraries from the distribution DVD and their updates with the complied applications. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The advantage would be a system optimised for the specific hardware on which it is installed resulting in best possible performance for application that are compiled with the same compiler optimisation flags. Discussion: #1: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) (2011-08-20 18:26:35) Why not use OBS for that? #2: Elmar Haag (hans_linux) (2011-08-24 08:55:23) (reply to #1) I would do it if I would know how to do this using OBS. #3: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2011-08-28 10:22:17) For those routines, apps and libraries that would benefit performance, we could add them to the distribution so that it helps all. We do this already with a e.g. an i686 glibc and glibc that contains library routines selected based on the cpu. Some other critical libs do the same. Let's not build for everybody their own distribution - there's Gentoo for that - since it will make bugreporting and testing harder (you have to verify that a bug exists not because of the self-built). Btw. OBS does not have the bandwidth and space so that each openSUSE user can build a whole distribution. I suggest that you do a profiling of your system and figure out where the performance bottlenecks are and then figure out how to solve those for everybody in a good way. + #4: Tim Edwards (tk83) (2011-08-29 23:17:59) + What is the point of this? I mean is there any objective evidence (not + 'I installed Gentoo once and it felt really quick') that this kind of + thing improves speed noticeably, especially on x86_64 builds? + I mean sure, if you were building a high-performance compute cluster + for some big company or university you might want to custom-build some + critical components with a lot of optimisations. But for a desktop or + laptop or even a normal server? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312756