On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:12:05AM +0100, José Matos wrote: > On Wednesday 28 March 2007 8:01:18 pm Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Sure, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's just that the rpms > > not necessarily have to be build from the srpm as long as the result > > is the same. Even in C++ there is the "as-if" rule... > > And you apply them in the same machine you built them and guarantee > that you have the same environment. Unless you use a jail to > guarantee that you don't have any cross-contaminantion for > dependencies that are not libs.
Breference uilding on one machine and test deploying on a clean virtual machine is good enough for all practical purposes. > That is why I use a chroot, or any program that uses them such as > mach or mock to build reliably an rpm. *shrug* virtual machines are easier to reset. Andre'
