Hi, On 02/19/2011 04:33 PM, Steve Meyers wrote: >> And while I may very well have missed what others are interested in, >> I'm interested mostly in the buildhost magic, and there is magic at >> the buildhost level in any rebuild. Even if the magic is not > I completely agree. I am interested in duplicating it so I can learn > more about the process, and through that perhaps be able to contribute > to the project. I think what would be ideal would be something like a These sort of questions come from the FUD created by the silly people. In order to convert a source package to a binary package, you need to hit rpmbuild at some stage or the other, the environment it churns in can impact the result and these days convention in the rhel/fedora/centos areas is to use mock and a defined common buildroot. The idea of magic juice used by CentOS is not only stupid its also what leads you into believing a lot of the other crap that these people shovel out. - KB