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General Overview of the Fedora Build and Release process
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= DPI908 Research Paper Checklist =
For the 2012 Fall Semester, your research paper should investigate how Fedora secure secures its Build and Release system. The research paper should be about 20 pages long typed document and must include at least the following SectionSections:
== General Overview of the Fedora Build and Release process ==
* Getting Program sourcefiles
* Building locally from source using the rpmbuilt rpmbuild system
* Buidding Building locally using the mock built system
* Using the koji buildsystem
* rpm package review process
* Software releaseprocess** rpm signing* Software update * rpm reporepository
* Software update process
== For each phase of the build and release processes ==
* identify what security measures has been taken to safeguard the integrity of the software
* comment on the advantage/disadvantage/weekness weakness of the security measure  
== Report on ==
* your findingfindings
* your commentcomments
* your recommendationrecommendations
== Conclusion ==
Summarize the overall security state of the Fedora Build and Release process, qualifying the risks you have identified to provide an overall risk assessment.
 
== Citation ==
Cite all sources used in MLA style.
=Submission = Citation ==Please upload your research report in PDF format to Blackboard on or before your 0.3 release due date.