On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, robert mena wrote:
yeah but he wants to hear from the horse's mouth....
Who knows what the guy really said when a reporter quotes something....
The 'pull quotes' attributed to me (the horse in question) by the Reg are accurate and carry good context
Anyone who follows this mailing list and -devel or my blog, has seen the balance of what I said, over and over. People who want to understand how to solve the issues of rebuilding ... need to roll up their sleeves and get down and dirty doing rebuilds, so they see and learn how to solve the issues. Talking about it, speculating, conducting 'thought experiments' about what _should_ happen do little that is useful
There is no magic bullet or shortcut to becoming a rebuilder, no 'secret sauce' as hughesjr says. Just systematic problem solving
Exactly ONE PERSON has followed through since I offered private guidance over three months ago, and that person now has a server oriented, trimmed down RHEL 6 sources rebuild. I offered pointers, but they learned by doing. I am proud to see the install CD sized ISOs for i386 and x86_64 rather than the bloat DVD images of RHEL (some surgery to anaconda was required, and that spin does not seek binary identical replication of the upstream, so it is not a CentOS clone or competitor. I'll probably offer the image at pmman soon)
It's not magic folks
-- Russ herrold