Re: [CentOS] how is "binary compatibility" determined?

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Keith Keller kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote:

Hi all!

We've seen quite a few references on the list to "100% binary compatibility with upstream".  What I am curious about is, how precisely is this determined?  All the ways I can think of for comparing how two systems might work seem flawed in some way (e.g., using some sort of checksum; unit testing; verifying build parameters).  I did some searches both at centos.org and google, but couldn't find anything specific about the test(s) used to determine compatibility.

In this FAQ:

http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General/RebuildReleaseProcess

"Once built ... we use the tmverifyrpms against it from here:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/build/distro/ "

Akemi