[CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 21:28:12 UTC 2011


On 4/7/2011 3:55 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> rebuilding RHEL src rpms under RHEL, it should be made
>> public and either fixed or acknowleged as the intended
>> outcome.
>
> Off topic here as to what RHEL and its vendor should or should
> not do, Les.

OK, I'll rephrase.  What they do do should be made public.

> And 'self-hosting' has NEVER been a goal of the upstream's
> full product line [and indeed cannot be, as parts of it
> include binary blobs for which sources are not released]

And yet, there are probably people who believe that RH releases sources 
that can be rebuilt to usable binaries and make decisions based on that.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com



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