Re: [CentOS-devel] FYI: centos reproduceability

Les,

Les Mikesell wrote:

I thought _THE_ selling point of open source has always been that in case of problems the vendor can't/won't fix, you have the option to make the change yourself. But if you can't rebuild their packages or even tell how the source relates to the shipped binary, that isn't true and shouldn't be represented as such.

You are working on the assumption that you cant build the packages.... which I can assure you is not try. Look, there is this thing called CentOS which should prove that its possible to rebuild and build exactly whats happening upstream too :)