 | | | what is your opinion on White Box linux??? | what is your opinion on White Box linux??? 2005-03-14 - By Lance Davis
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Ken Snider wrote:
>
> > Assuming you're referring to the "rebuild" RHEL clones, they are
> > essentially identical to RHEL, from a software standpoint. what you
> > don't get is access to RHN (obviously), Red Hat support
>
> The problem is deeper than that. A "rebuild" clone cannot
> fix one of their user's bug without breaking the stated goal
> of being as close enough to RHEL as they can be.
Being as close as possible would not preclude fixing bugs, and passing
fixes upstream.
> If Red Hat support gets a customer issue, chances are the
> bug will be fixed in a next update release. Users of
> "rebuild" clones will have to take their chances and hope
> that a RHEL user runs into the same bug, and reports it in
> time for the next update release.
I dont recall seeing a pre-condition of being a subscribed rhel user to
post in Bugzilla ???
> Note that the rebuild clones can also introduce slight changes
> by recompiling packages in another order than they were
> compiled at Red Hat, which influences which versions of the
> various include files were included by the compiler.
Hmm, I guess we better take note of rpm build order ;)
Regards
Lance
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