On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote > > We do not change what upstream has in their SRPMS (except when we have > to) ... we don't even unpack them unless we need to change them. We > submit them to mock to build. Every patch we create, every change we > make, it is in the SRPM. > > Why is this so hard to understand? > What are the differences (if any) between the build procedures documented by Scientific Linux at the url below? https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/build/problembyrpm Would Scientific Linux also be 100% binary compatible with upstream, or are there other procedures followed by Centos to achieve the binary compatibility goal?