Alternative option for solving Fedora i686 vs geode problems

[James Cameron]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 07:19:43PM -0300, Daniel Drake wrote:
> In this case, the Fedora packages are now unusable, so rebuilding them
> would be needed. I'm not sure that this counts as progressing to
> "rolling our own distro" since the rebuild would be fully automatic,
> and that the end result would only have trivial differences.

You are placing far more trust in a trivial rebuild than I would.  Once
Fedora ceases testing the actual instruction streams we will be using,
we will be providing the testing instead.  There are some interesting
classes of bugs that this would influence.

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James Cameron
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