[CentOS] What Fedora Version (for Repo use)

[Johnny Hughes]

Chris wrote:
> What Fedora version equates to Cent 5? I would like to use the Fedora 
> repos (if possible). Please advise.
> 

You can't just use fedora produced RPMS on centos.  The supporting 
libraries are not the same.  When the upstream SRPMS (source files) used 
to create CentOS are produced (in this case RHEL-5 sources from from a 
pre-release of Fedora Core 6), there is a fairly small window of time 
when MOST of the supporting libraries are the same.

By the time both distros are released however, the libraries have 
usually changed to the point that you SHOULD NEVER use fedora RPMS 
directly on CentOS.

If you really want functionality that is not in CentOS, RPMForge, 
ATRPMS, EPEL, or KBS-CentOS-Extras but is in fedora, then you should 
rebuild the SRPMS against the CentOS libraries.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

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