On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 13:58 -0800, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > > One thing that should be clear is that by using a > > revision control > > system for RPM packaging, we've already conceptually > > broken > > compatibility because the SRPM is no longer the > > preferred form of > > modification, to use the GPL terminology. > > > I was more concerned about breaking binary > compatibility. srpms would still be relevant to people > who dont have a build setup similar to redhat right? No; you should be able to build packages from the Fedora public CVS without access to the Fedora build system. I say "should" in that I don't know if it works now, but I think it's a bug if it doesn't.
