On 2/17/2011 11:45 AM, Remi Collet wrote:
We've had a php-5.2 in c5-testing which was based on the rhwas sources from upstream. Quite a few people have that package in production at various places however, this looks mostly unsupported upstream now.
Would someone like to adopt the 5.2 packages, bring them upto 5.2.17 and maintain it going forward for c5 ?
Sorry but I think this will be a terrible mistake (even if I'm going to hurt some people)
AFAIK, CentOS is a RHEL clone.
So, cloning package for RHEL is ok Cloning package from RHWAS is also ok (in a sub-repository, of course)
RHWAS provides php-5.2.10-1.el5s2 as should CentOS
I think that providing packages which are not RH's upstream introduce a terrible confusion for final users.
I think this is definitively something for third party repositories.
So, to resume, is CentOS a clone or a fork of RHEL ?
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories (note the extras/plus repos)
If you enable the non-default CentOSPlus repo, it might be reasonable to consider it a fork. But, anything that can co-exist with a stock RHEL distro probably belongs in EPEL or one of the other repos used by RHEL and all clones.