Has anyone compiled the Enterprise version of Redhat?

[gboyce at badbelly.com]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Bill Horne wrote:

> TWIMC,
> 
> If you or someone you know is using a version of Redhat Enterprise Linux
> that you compiled from the sources, please let me know.

Bill,

I've been looking into the same thing myself, and I've run into some 
disturbing information.  It appears that RHEL 3.0 isn't designed to be 
self-hosting.  

I had been planning on building the core packages from another distro 
(Fedora maybe), and then once I install those core packages, rebuilding 
everything (including the core packages) from within itself.

According to this e-mail, it's not possible:

http://www.mail-archive.com/rhel-rebuild-l@uibk.ac.at/msg00070.html

Maybe RHEL 2.1 can build RHEL 3.0.

--
Greg