[CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Mon Apr 11 21:04:45 UTC 2011


Tru Huynh wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 03:37:28PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On 4/11/2011 2:59 PM, Tru Huynh wrote:
>> >
>> >>> Make your own experiment (i.e rebuild your own clone) and
>> >>> document/report back what you find out as the proper order of
>> >>>  rebuild of the upstream SRPMS ?
>> >>
>> >> So having everyone repeat the same mistakes with no coordination is
>> >> your idea of doing things faster?
>> > who is everyone?
>>
>> I might throw some time and equipment at it if I knew I wasn't
>> re-inventing square wheels (or even round ones for that matter).  And I
>> suspect that others smarter than I am would do the same and maybe even
>> improve the approach by coming up with ways to predict the build
>> environment needed to reproduce a given binary to reduce the
>> trial-and-error time.

> Same answer for you than I made for Dag, volonteer to coordinate, build,
> write scripts, publish *your* work and you will be helping your fellows.
<snip>
I must be missing something here. If it had been someone I didn't know,
that's one thing, but Dag's been contributing to Linux as a whole for a
lotta years, and his site is a major repository.

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