On 04/04/11 10:03 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > So the main problem that CentOS team has to solve with each major release is > to construct a build environment that will produce binaries that are bit-by- > bit equivalent to official RHEL (up to trademarks, branding and some other > stuff). > > > From my naive understanding, this boils down to the proper order in which > packages are supposed to be built. There is more than one possible ordering, > and only one will give binary equivalent set of packages. I think its even a little worse than this, that various packages require DIFFERENT build environments, toolsets, and so forth.