DPI908 Research Paper

DPI908 Research Paper Checklist

For the 2012 Fall Semester, your research paper should investigate how Fedora secure its Build and Release system. The research paper should include at least the following Section:

General Overview of the Fedora Build and Release process

• Program source

• Building locally from source using the rpmbuilt system

• Buidding locally using the mock built system

• the koji build

• rpm package review process

• Software release

• Software update

• rpm repo

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 of the security measure

Report on

• your finding

• your comment

• your recommendation