Les Mikesell wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Tim Alberts <talberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Honestly I feel like a backstabber by using CentOS because I've been
with Fedora since before Fedora (RedHat 5.1 was my first Linux
experience), and using CentOS is reaping the benefits with no
contribution.
You realize that technically speaking Redhat|Centos are infact Fedora,
albeit mature versions of it.
Not really. The testing that goes into RHEL is quite different.
And yet there are packages in RHEL5 that weren't rebuilt from their FC6
versions...
I'm not sure that's so[1], but if it is, so what?
It's the _distro_ testing that is the key difference. RH is betting its
future on its RHEL releases. Problems with Fedora are trivially
important in comparison (and arguably not RH's problems at all).
[1] I've seen EL packages that seem to be FC packages, but that might
mean no more than the same spec file and that the spec file is not
sensitive to the build environment. THis, for example, will look like a
RHEL package even if built on Fedora:
Name: fedora-ds
Version: 1.0
Release: 2.RHEL4
while some others expand %{dist} like so:
Release: 2%{?dist}
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Cheers
John
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