On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Unless the SRPMs distributed by Red Hat are a misrepresentation, a build
> from these SRPMs should yield RPMs that are identical (bit for bit, e.g.,
> under a real binary compare) to the installable RPMs provided by Red Hat.

The bit for bit comparison can be different because, as was explained
by one of the CentOS developers during the CentOS 6 rebuild, if foo
has a build dependency on bar, RH sometimes uses an unreleased version
of bar in order to build foo. Rebuilders like CentOS and SL have to
make do with the released version of the bar srpm in order to build
foo.