On 07/20/2012 08:12 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > And I*love* the chart... never mind that RH changed the build structure > to give Oracle pain, and it hurt us That change affects Oracle because they update and modify the kernel. Since it's not pristine + patches like other SRPMs, Oracle has a moving target and may need to manually fix each of the patches that they apply. CentOS simply rebuilds the package, and I'm reasonably certain that I recall statements from the CentOS maintainers that Red Hat's changes don't affect their process. I don't think your argument holds water.