On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 08:58 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Keith Keller > <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > We've seen quite a few references on the list to "100% binary > > compatibility with upstream". What I am curious about is, how precisely > > is this determined? All the ways I can think of for comparing how two > > systems might work seem flawed in some way (e.g., using some sort of > > checksum; unit testing; verifying build parameters). I did some > > searches both at centos.org and google, but couldn't find anything > > specific about the test(s) used to determine compatibility. > > In this FAQ: > > http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General/RebuildReleaseProcess > > "Once built ... we use the tmverifyrpms against it from here: > > http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4/build/distro/ " > > Akemi > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks Keith, good question, that should have been on my list of "Questions to ask about CentOS building process", and thanks to Akemi for a quick answer :)