On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net> writes:
> > WOW,
> > Open source at it's best. A guy has a problem, goes through all the functions,
> > delivers the suspects, and another open source worker gets it fixed, in less
> > than 24 hours.
> > What a way of life :-)
>
> IMHO, the *real* advantage of open source is that Guido can patch it for
> himself, without having to wait for us to put out a new release.
>
> This is something that I think RPM distribution largely loses.
> Certainly if you only know how to install binary RPMs, you're dependent
> on the upstream folks to propagate fixes. It might be okay if you build
> from a source RPM --- can anyone comment on how hard it is to merge
> locally-supplied diffs into a source RPM? I've never tried to ...
It's probably the easiest part when it comes to making your own RPMs.