On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Charlie Brady wrote:
I had no trouble rebuilding all the packages from: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/RHEMRG/SRPMS/
Sounds good :)
So I guess that you will be able to recompile those as well, and perhaps it won't be too difficult for CentOS project to do a rebuild.
How sure are we that things also compare well with pkgs from upstream ?
Me? Not at all. Most packages are .noarch, so I doubt there are any subtle differences re upstream.
Is there a published protocol for doing binary comparisons with upstream?
I haven't looked at any of the packages to see what trademark material there is which would need to be removed by the CentOS project.
I guess we can have a look for those as well. There are no real guidelines at this time, that might be something else worth considering.
Thanks.