Wine/Cedega and fedora 3

Wed Dec 8 21:21:11 UTC 2004

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:27:32AM -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> It's goofy.  It's a waste of effort.  Someone *already* packages new
> versions of OpenSSH, why should someone else have to *repackage* the
> exact same binary just to get a different set of RPM headers?  How does
> that make sense?

It's not just headers.  It could be ABI differences.

> OpenSSH case, I don't *need* gssapi-with-mic, it just simplifies a lot
> of what I do, especially when I have long ssh->ssh->ssh chains going
> through several firewalls.

Is "rpmbuild --rebuild someone-elses-new-openssh.src.rpm" each time
someone else releases a security fix that hard?