Hi Ned, On 04/11/2011 10:02 PM, Ned Slider wrote: >> each release is more complex than the last. The web of dependency grows, >> so the reverse-engineering takes longer and longer. > This is just complete nonsense. You clearly have no understanding of the > processes involved in rebuilding RHEL. CentOS doesn't reverse-engineer > anything, they simply rebuild the upstream sources. It's not rocket science.
He's not completely wrong; getting dep ordering with missing intermediaries isn't trivial. If upstream takes upto 50 days from release to drop a srpm, we need to consider implications in both directions right ? and at that point ( it has happened ) we might be looking at rebuilds from 50+X days. Where X might even be 20 - 45 days itself. in 5.3's release time we had to traceback to a fastrack built package from 5.1's days. - KB _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
