On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Michael Tiernan wrote:

> 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.)

The build issues solved with nfs-utils-1.2.3-15.el6.0.sl6
suggest that it is important that we know how to rebuild
the distro.

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