johhny....
thanks, for the info!! just what i was loking for!
another question. is the latest version of CentOS pretty much the same as the latest version of RHEL?
also, does CentoS have the ability to be downloaded using Bittorrent?
thanks
-bruce
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 3:03 PM To: CentOS ML Subject: Re: [CentOS] rhel source rpms
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 14:45 -0700, bruce wrote:
hi...
new to centos, but i have a few questions...
i understand that centos is a derivative of rhel, created from the exact/underluing source files used to create rhel.
CentOS is not in any way associated with, affiliated with, or supported by Red Hat, Inc. CentOS is built from open source SRPMS. Here is where we get the RPMS that we build:
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/
and
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/
if this is the case, is it possible to get the actual source SRPMS for either RHEL, or for CentOS?
See the above links for the upstream SRPMS that we use and for CentOS SRPMS (the ones we actually build from ... we first remake the and resign the point of origin SRPMS {change the ones that are required}):
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/
(we have several Repositories ... each one has an SRPMS directory)
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/Readme.txt
I used to see the source files on the redaht system, but I don't seem to
see
them anymore...
i'm curious to know what's better, using CentOS, or the latest fedora FC version...
That depends on what you want (enterprise software or latest/greatest), see this article:
http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/65/CentOS_4.2.pdf
thanks
-bruce bedouglas@earthlink.net
Thanks, Johnny Hughes