DPI908 Research Paper
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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
- Getting Program source files
- Building locally from source using the rpmbuilt system
- Buidding locally using the mock built system
- Using the koji build system
- rpm package review process
- Software release process
- Software update process
- 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
