On 3/24/2011 11:49 AM, Coy Hile wrote:
In looking at the various FAQs, I haven't seen an answer to this, so I thought I would pose it here. Where/how do the CentOS maintainers get the SRPMS from the upstream vendor? The reason I ask is more a question of given DVDs of all the SRPMs, how does one go about spinning up an installable ISO? I'm thinking from the perspective of rolling my own ISO until CentOS 6 came out.
The srpms are here: http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/, but note that the build is non-trivial and has already been done by Scientific Linux (http://www.scientificlinux.org/). Their version isn't as exact a copy of the upstream binaries as CentOS plans to produce but it is suitable for general use and likely better than anyone could do as their first attempt.