Re: Errata rpms only via up2date?

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 06:50 -0500, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:34:29PM +0200, Michael Stiller wrote:
> > Excellent work Brian. Just build the SRPM, updated and it works. 
> 
> Please note that building the SRPM yourself does *NOT* necessarily give
> you the same result as the Red Hat-supplied binary.
> 
> There have been cases where Red Hat has even required an unreleased
> compiler to build a specific binary - I believe it was dhcpd recently
> where they discovered a compiler bug building it, fixed the compiler,
> and released the dhcpd binary.  The fixed compiler wasn't released until
> later.
> 
> If you want guaranteed Red Hat support, run the Red Hat binaries.

Sure.  However, up2date is pure python, so it's interpreted at run-time
and I imagine that if Red Hat built up2date.i386 with one version of
python, your system's python runs it in practice.  How's that different
from taking my SRPM, rebuilding and running up2date?

/Brian/

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