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Posted Feb 16, 2014 19:51 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)In reply to: building by eean
Parent article: Ubuntu Community Council statement on Canonical package licensing
CentOS aims to build as close to bit-for-bit to what Red Hat ships as possible (down to the release number). The problem is that you're not just building, e.g., with gcc-4.8.2-3, but 4.8.2-3 which was built by -2 which was built by 4.7.3-X (because -1 was broken). *That* is what makes it hard work.
If and when verifiable builds come into fashion and are picked up by distributions, this might change.
Posted Feb 16, 2014 20:28 UTC (Sun)
by eean (subscriber, #50420)
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I do feel like anyone with access to their own Open Build Server could build openSUSE from scratch without too much trouble.
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Ah yea, I see that being hard. CentOS has a very different target than Mint though, don't need to worry about having the same build number in the package versions.