[CentOS-devel] progress?

Sun Feb 20 04:30:54 UTC 2011
js <jsh at interlug.net>

Le 20/02/11 08:22, Manuel Wolfshant a écrit :
> 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".
>
I apply more credits to Dag so we can have more details.
note:
people equipped with brains are polite, think about it.

Regards

js.