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Have him look at
http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/build/
and at least the presentation from November 04, 2010 titled 'New Tools
Used by the Scientific Linux Team' in
http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/presentations/
(Somebody at SL needs to fix the cut-and-past error in the conference
link)
Armed with the knowledge found therein, he might be able to mollify
management.
Tony
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 15:39 -0500, Michael Tiernan wrote:
> On 1/19/12 3:28 PM, Alan S. House wrote:
> > If I understand you, do you want to re-build the rpm's from source and
> > basically build your own SL distribution from source on your own
> > repository? If so that's something that my organization is wanting to
> > do also and I would be interested in any documentation and how to info.
>
> Hi Alan. I'm including the list in the conversation only for completeness.
>
> In his words "Some shark has asked fish who asked fish who told fish who
> told me." that they wanted to be able to, in case of "emergency", build
> *any* component of the system exactly as the "vendor" (ScientificLinux)
> does.
>
> I think it's an "over the top" request but I see the logic. They want to
> make sure that each step they take is on solid footing, they don't want
> to find that they and/or their customers are abandoned should something
> go wrong. (Read that as CentOS, a problem they ran into head first.)
>
> So, I was *sure* I'd seen it before but obviously I was wrong and the
> answer that Pat provided is a very good start for them. (And I might do
> it too just to learn it.)
>
> I've passed on the info and we'll see what happens. :)
>
> I've asked him, should he be able to, provide *back* the documentation
> on how he got from point A to point Z but with his company's management,
> I'm not sure yet.
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