Re: Linux Downloads page change

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> On 9 July 2012 10:44, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>>
>>> It gets pushed periodically when I remember to do it (or someone
>>> reminds me), which I guess you've forgotten given that we've had this
>>> exact same discussion before.
>>
>> That highlights a key flaw.
>>
>> If we distribute RPMs then the SRPMs should exactly match. If they
>> don't, that's a pretty serious set of bugs we're introducing.
>>
>> Can I suggest that the process be changed? Push the SRPM code, then
>> generate RPMs from the released SRPM code. That way there is no
>> opportunity to forget anything. This is a substantial security
>> concern, not just a forgotten task.
>>
>> Perhaps it would be useful to have a "build farm" that builds the RPMs
>> from SRPMs automatically, then we will have no need for manually
>> updating the RPMs at all. (And I mean build all binaries from publicly
>> available build scripts).
>
> We're not talking about RPMs here.

FWIW, the RPMs already do this, I believe.

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