Re: [CentOS-devel] FYI: centos reproduceability

James Olin Oden wrote:

I think the salient points are:

• RedHat distros today don't self host.
• Some customers desire that the distro could self host.

Maybe the number of customers that desire this are too small to worry about, versus the cost of meeting their perceived needs. Maybe, solving the problem is really hard. None of that changes the above two facts; it only places them in a context.

Do you know how the other distributions handle this? Obviously, gentoo was designed with end-user source rebuilds in mind and the *bsd's got it right eons ago, but what about debian, ubuntu, etc.