On Nov 7, 2009, at 5:33 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Jeff Johnson wrote:
OK. Please note that distributing patches, while a perfectly common
and useful methodolgy, is fundamentally at odds with RPM's original
design goals:
Virgin sources, with patches applied, built reproducibly.
From the crypt (rpm-list from years past):
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Jeff Johnson wrote:
FWIW, there are 2 big lies in rpm:
1) reproducible builds.
#1 is true iff one knows how to set up a build environment.
I see you've omitted the other Big Lie in RPM.
The goal of
Transactionally Protected Package Management
should make rpm (even if not yet rpmbuild) an honest
program again ;-)
73 de Jeff
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