Whitebox Linux

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Jason Dixon wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 02:32, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
> > > > The point being made is that if you find a bug in Whitebox 
> > > Linux, and that bug doesn't get fixed in a RHEL update, and the Whitebox
> > > > maintainers can't fix it, Red Hat has no obligation to fix that bug.
> > 
> > True, however, your statement is a bit conflicting. if I find a bug in 
> > whitebox and that bug is also found in RHEL, then RH will be obligated to 
> > get it fixed. The only question is _IF_ the bug is only in whitebox and not
> > in RHEL. Then what happens? 
> 
> I can't imagine how the WBEL team could introduce a bug, as they don't
> introduce any new code into the distro.  Whitebox is literally a rebuild

They've already encountered several bugs/issues/oddities caused by
building in different enviroment than RHEL was built (RH has their own
buildsystem which isn't publicly available at least currently).

	- Panu -