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. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [log in to unmask] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna