[CentOS] redhat vs centos

Marko Vojinovic vvmarko at gmail.com
Wed Nov 2 23:33:23 UTC 2011


On Wednesday 02 November 2011 22:55:39 Ian Pilcher wrote:
> On 11/02/2011 09:35 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > There is the Oracle "unbreakable" Linux (or whatever they call it),
> > which is a RHEL clone. The recent RH packaging changes are aimed
> > squarely at that distro from what I understand. The problem is that
> > the changes affect *all* clones the same way, including CentOS.
> 
> To what changes are you referring?
> 
> As far as I know, the only packaging change in RHEL 6 is that the source
> in the kernel SRPM is now one big tarball, rather than an upstream
> tarball and a bunch of separate patches.
> 
> This shouldn't have any effect on anyone who is simply rebuilding the
> SRPM.  (I just tested this by successfully building the latest kernel
> SRPM from ftp://ftp.redhat.com in mock's epel-6-i386 chroot on my
> Fedora system.)
> 
> Is there another change of which I'm unaware?

Umm, the new AUP?

Best, :-)
Marko




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