On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Charlie Brady wrote: >> I had no trouble rebuilding all the packages from: >> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/RHEMRG/SRPMS/ > > Sounds good :) > >> So I guess that you will be able to recompile those as well, and perhaps >> it won't be too difficult for CentOS project to do a rebuild. > > How sure are we that things also compare well with pkgs from upstream ? Me? Not at all. Most packages are .noarch, so I doubt there are any subtle differences re upstream. Is there a published protocol for doing binary comparisons with upstream? >> I haven't looked at any of the packages to see what trademark material >> there is which would need to be removed by the CentOS project. > > I guess we can have a look for those as well. There are no real > guidelines at this time, that might be something else worth considering. Thanks.