On 03/22/2011 08:18 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/22/11 8:07 PM, William Hooper wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Les Mikesell<lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 3/22/11 7:38 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> >>>> You missed my point to the poster. While Centos is my defacto >>>> production OS, he mentioned switching to Ubuntu which is nothing like >>>> RHEL. >>>> >>>> So I thought instead of going with such a diff paradigm, that using SL >>>> might be more similar in tool set then Ubuntu. >>>> >>> >>> But if the underlying issue is that Red Hat is intentionally making the >>> rebuilds >>> difficult, any derivative is going to be fragile. >>> >>> -- >>> Les Mikesell >> >> The change doesn't make anything more difficult for rebuilds. >> >> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/red_hat_twarts_oracle_and_novell_with_change_to_source_code_packaging/ >> >> "We haven't at all restricted CentOS's ability to grab source code and >> recompile it and clean-out trademarks and package it. It's just some >> of the knowledge of the insides that we're hiding," he [Red Hat chief >> technology officer Brian Stevens] explains. One longtime CentOS >> developer agrees. >> >> "I'll not lose sleep on the matter," CentOS co-founder Russ Herold >> tells The Reg. >> >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-March/107338.html >> >> "This should not impact building the kernel ... it might impact things >> like the CentOSPlus Kernel or CentOS providing a "stop gap" kernel (in >> the testing repo) while waiting for Red Hat to correct a problem and get >> their kernel through engineering and then released." > > 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?
This is really nothing new, we have been finding and fixing these kind of things for 8 years. All it takes is time ... start the build, if it does not build (or if it is linked incorrectly when it builds), figure out why and rebuild.
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