[CentOS-devel] Defining what CentOS is
Roger Pena Escobio
orkcu at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 22 17:16:12 UTC 2008
--- On Mon, 12/22/08, Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk> wrote:
> From: Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Defining what CentOS is
> To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel at centos.org>
> Received: Monday, December 22, 2008, 11:53 AM
> Dag Wieers wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We discussed this on #centos after yet another
> "centos" user had problem
> > using yum. What is missing is a page targetted at
> > integrators/distributors with a list of requirements
> for using the
> > "CentOS" product name or even saying it is
> derived, based or build on
> > CentOS.
> >
>
> This issue crops up often on the forums too.
>
> > We might be able to kill more than one bird with a
> single stone, so I am
> > looking for more things we want to prevent
> distributors/integrators doing
> > without making it impossible for them to use CentOS
> altogether.
> >
> > My first concern was the support problem, what do we
> (at minimum) expect
> > to have when users say they have a CentOS. A working
> yum using the CentOS
> > official repositories, a minimal set of official
> packages (which ?).
> >
>
> Cases seen on the forums often involve non-existent or
> broken yum and/or
> custom a non-CentOS kernel. Those users tend to get pointed
> to the
> BrokenVserver Wiki page. So an unadulterated working yum
> and CentOS
> kernel as a starting point?
centos-release package and the affecting package being build by CentOS build system could be also an start point to be considered a centos support case, and when I write "support" I mean the usual way centos provide support
thanks
roger
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