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| − | For the 2012 Fall Semester, your research paper should investigate how Fedora secure its Build and Release system. The research paper should be about 20 pages long typed document and must include at least the following | + | For the 2012 Fall Semester, your research paper should investigate how Fedora secure its Build and Release system. The research paper should be about 20 pages long typed document and must include at least the following Sections: |
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Contents
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 be about 20 pages long typed document and must include at least the following Sections:
General Overview of the Fedora Build and Release process
- Getting Program source files
- Building locally from source using the rpmbuilt system
- Building 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/weakness of the security measure
Report on
- your findings
- your comments
- your recommendations
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
Please upload your research report in PDF format to Blackboard on or before your 0.3 release due date.
