On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > > Well, I would say that the root cause of the problem is that they are > somehow manually adding things to the buildroot for these packages. Why > or how it happens (as in the process) I have no idea. > > If all packages had to build in an automated system, if that automated > system had to have one minimum build root and if nothing was allowed to > be installed in a buildroot external to the spec file then this sort of > thing could not happen. Johnny, Have you ever seen a case where instead of modifying the build root you modified the .src.rpm and couldn't reach binary compatibility?