Given the recent problems with the 4.0.0 release and major packages like KDE and the kernel, has anyone considered testing releases by completely compiling a Linux system?
As one of those infamous "Gentoo users", I don't think it would be at all difficult to build an automated test harness, running in a chroot, that would rebuild a "standard" Linux install with a pending release of GCC. The suite of applications would need to be relatively tight; I'd suggest Linux, Gnome, KDE, their major appliations, and perhaps OpenOffice. The downside is that the compile would take quite a while; even for my dual Opteron, full builds take more than a day. On the other hand, this might catch some problems before release. I'm willing to implement this, if it's deemed useful. ..Scott
