On 3/22/11 8:23 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:18:31PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>> Building the kernel shouldn't be an issue - but look at the SL notes
>> on the srpms that don't build with the listed dependencies as shipped
>> - and they aren't being picky about the library linkages matching the
>> RH binaries like CentOS is. If the RH build links things from source
>> they don't ship, how much can you trust the projects that depend on
>> that source to be able to ship timely updates?
>
> If you don't trust the project _why_ are you here?
>
The CentOS team has a good history and tested binary compatibility has its
advantages - but they do rely on the upstream which previously was not openly
hostile to rebuilds. It's not necessarily even possible to get binary
compatibility if matching source isn't made available.
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Les Mikesell
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