Jim Perrin wrote:
Any chance of joining forces with Scientific Linux in the add-on department at least to the point of having common repositories in yum (perhaps disabled by default)? Their goals seem similar including the support lifetime and they already have a packaged sun java:
https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/5x/features/added
There was some talk on the SL list of merging with/using centos as a base for SL. We do discuss things with their devs (You may see Connie pop up on the lists from time to time). I would like to see things move to a bit more of a 'shared' community in that respect, but as it stands now, you should be able to use the SL repos with centos. It's all built to work for the same common code.
Thanks - personally I am hoping for a packaged/maintained sun java. I have a bunch of machines still running CentOS 3.x and a hand-installed java 1.4.x that I'd like to rebuild with something current. I'll try that one unless something else shows up soon.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com