[CentOS-devel] progress?

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 02/20/2011 06:16 AM, js wrote:
> Le 20/02/11 04:32, Dag Wieers a écrit :
>> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>
>>> For the vast majority of packages, we make no changes.  We rebuild it
>>> and test it.  If the binary passes the test, we use it.  If the binary
>>> does not pass the test we troubleshoot and figure out why it does not
>>> pass the test ... and we change things OUTSIDE the SRPM to fix the
>>> problem.
>> Yes, and those changes are closed.
>>
>> But then again we first have to establish the notion that a CentOS release
>> that is 2 or 3 months behind RHEL is a huge security problem to CentOS
>> users (and probably to the CentOS infrastructure as well).
>>
>> I don't think it makes any sense to discuss the CentOS project's
>> transparency if we cannot admit that we are doing a lousy job regarding
>> our core business. The lack of competition in this space surely didn't
>> help keeping us on our toes.
>>
> Hello,
>
> So, if for some reasons I want to rebuild a centos (for educational); It
> will not work because of
> missing "hack" never published?
no, it will work once the person who wants to do the rebuild follows the 
instructions already published and uses the device named "brain".