[CentOS-devel] progress?

Sat Feb 19 15:46:26 UTC 2011
Larry Vaden <vaden at texoma.net>

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?