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.