I plan to highlight the differences between RHEL and CentOS 3.1.
Making this information clearly available without the need for duplicated effort across the world.
This will help others take CentOS in different directions benefiting us all.
It will help individuals create new projects more easily and efficiently.
Are the diff files readily available, can I download them from anywhere?
If the diff files were made available with each update, the community would understand more, less questions and confusion would occur. More scrutiny would result in a better product for us all.
RHEL takes open source software and closes it. CentOS takes this closed software and reopens it. By making the changes open to public inspection, CentOS would become 100% open source.
I have no wish to waste months of effort duplicating your work, even if I write scripts to automate the task.
I can host the files on a server if you have no wish to do so at caosity.
Alternatively I could do this work for you.
Kevin Wood
Open source, open mind.
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, kevin wrote:
If the diff files were made available with each update, the community would understand more, less questions and confusion would occur. More scrutiny would result in a better product for us all.
This really is a strange post.
The patch files are all contained separately within the source rpms.
The exceptions are redhat-artwork and anaconda-images where the graphic files are contained with the source rpm, and anaconda itself where there are wholesale changes.
I dont know what 'questions and confusion' you are referring to.
RHEL takes open source software and closes it. CentOS takes this closed software and reopens it. By making the changes open to public inspection, CentOS would become 100% open source.
But they already are and it already is.
Lance
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