[CentOS-devel] progress?

js jsh at interlug.net
Sun Feb 20 04:16:44 UTC 2011


Le 20/02/11 04:32, Dag Wieers a écrit :
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
>> For the vast majority of packages, we make no changes.  We rebuild it
>> and test it.  If the binary passes the test, we use it.  If the binary
>> does not pass the test we troubleshoot and figure out why it does not
>> pass the test ... and we change things OUTSIDE the SRPM to fix the
>> problem.
> Yes, and those changes are closed.
>
> But then again we first have to establish the notion that a CentOS release
> that is 2 or 3 months behind RHEL is a huge security problem to CentOS
> users (and probably to the CentOS infrastructure as well).
>
> I don't think it makes any sense to discuss the CentOS project's
> transparency if we cannot admit that we are doing a lousy job regarding
> our core business. The lack of competition in this space surely didn't
> help keeping us on our toes.
>
Hello,

So, if for some reasons I want to rebuild a centos (for educational); It 
will not work because of
missing "hack" never published?

Regards

js.




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