On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Alan S. House wrote:

> This is a simular reason that we want to do this. We encountered a few
> major problems with the Fedora distribution (using kontact and others),
> where there was a bug in the program and we can't fix it until the next
> distribution comes out. So we're going to start rolling our own if needed.

Why can you not fix it until the "next distribution" comes out?

-Connie Sieh

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> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Michael Tiernan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> On 1/19/12 3:28 PM, Alan S. House wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> Hi Alan. I'm including the list in the conversation only for completeness.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.)
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>> 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.)
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>> I've passed on the info and we'll see what happens. :)
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>> 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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