What Fedora version equates to Cent 5? I would like to use the Fedora repos (if possible). Please advise.
TIA
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 23:22 -0600, Chris wrote:
What Fedora version equates to Cent 5? I would like to use the Fedora repos (if possible). Please advise.
---- you probably should check out EPEL repository...probably has what you're looking for
but in answer to your question, RHEL 5 was largely produced from Fedora 6 packages
Craig
Chris wrote:
What Fedora version equates to Cent 5? I would like to use the Fedora repos (if possible). Please advise.
There's no actively supported Fedora version CentOS is similar to.
See http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/ for a list of repositories.
Ralph
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.
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
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
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