Mathieu Baudier wrote on 10/15/2009 02:23 PM:
from [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?
Is that a big problem for the people who write the code and have every revision preserved for posterity (and for others to learn from) in a public revision control system?
I'm not sure that I understand. Is there indeed such a public repository of the build scriptds / RPM specs used by CentOS?
That would indeed be fascinating and useful to have a look at it. (I rebuilt libvirt from RedHat SRPM, just to test the some new virtualization feature of v5.4, and going through the process I kept wondering how the CentOS team is doing it on all the packages!)
There is a DRAFT Wiki page in progress on this. Do not expect a finished product, but see:
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General/RebuildReleaseProcess
Phil