--- On Mon, 12/22/08, Ned Slider ned@unixmail.co.uk wrote:
From: Ned Slider ned@unixmail.co.uk Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Defining what CentOS is To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." centos-devel@centos.org Received: Monday, December 22, 2008, 11:53 AM Dag Wieers wrote:
Hi,
We discussed this on #centos after yet another
"centos" user had problem
using yum. What is missing is a page targetted at integrators/distributors with a list of requirements
for using the
"CentOS" product name or even saying it is
derived, based or build on
CentOS.
This issue crops up often on the forums too.
We might be able to kill more than one bird with a
single stone, so I am
looking for more things we want to prevent
distributors/integrators doing
without making it impossible for them to use CentOS
altogether.
My first concern was the support problem, what do we
(at minimum) expect
to have when users say they have a CentOS. A working
yum using the CentOS
official repositories, a minimal set of official
packages (which ?).
Cases seen on the forums often involve non-existent or broken yum and/or custom a non-CentOS kernel. Those users tend to get pointed to the BrokenVserver Wiki page. So an unadulterated working yum and CentOS kernel as a starting point?
centos-release package and the affecting package being build by CentOS build system could be also an start point to be considered a centos support case, and when I write "support" I mean the usual way centos provide support
thanks roger