On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/25/2011 4:38 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> On 03/20/2011 12:30 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Or, maybe there was back in the days when they released source that matched >>> their binaries >> >> Red Hat's published source is what they use to create their binaries. >> There is no mis-match. > > I thought the issue causing the delays is that rebuilding from the > source does not reproduce their binaries unless you introduce library > versions that aren't what the source creates. One has to be cautious about the bootstrap environment, to make sure that the libraries available in your "mock" or other build environments are the same libraries. Red Hat seems to be very, very good about this. Scientific Linux isn't so careful in their recompilation, something that's been documented here recently, but it's why I want access to the "/etc/mock/" setups and the non-existent source control for tweaked packages.