On Monday 18 February 2008, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Chris wrote:
What Fedora version equates to Cent 5? I would like to use the Fedora repos (if possible). Please advise.
You can't just use fedora produced RPMS on centos. The supporting libraries are not the same. When the upstream SRPMS (source files) used to create CentOS are produced (in this case RHEL-5 sources from from a pre-release of Fedora Core 6), there is a fairly small window of time when MOST of the supporting libraries are the same.
By the time both distros are released however, the libraries have usually changed to the point that you SHOULD NEVER use fedora RPMS directly on CentOS.
I completely agree and would just like to add that what you _should_ be looking for when repo/rpm-hunting is rpms/repos for el5. Repos don't provides different builds for different el-clones...
/Peter
If you really want functionality that is not in CentOS, RPMForge, ATRPMS, EPEL, or KBS-CentOS-Extras but is in fedora, then you should rebuild the SRPMS against the CentOS libraries.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes