23 Dec
2009
23 Dec
'09
4:50 p.m.
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 14:51:23 Matt wrote:
If memory serves me correctly I was told CentOS 4.x was based on Fedora Core 3. So when finding a rpm I always looked for one for Fedora Core 3 and then it seemed to install ok on CentOS 4. Is CentOS 5 the same way and if so what Core is it based on?
CentOS 5 is based on Fedora Core 6.
That said, be warned that installing FC packages on CentOS is *not* a good idea. While it might work without issues in some cases, such practice is inviting trouble.
A slightly better approach is to grab the src rpm for fedora and 'rpmbuild --rebuild' it to get the binary versions to install. But most things that will work are already built in the epel or rpmforge repositories.
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