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Hi, I'm interested from where Centos gets the source RPMs of updates for Red Hat Linux? I suppose that they are publicly available but where?

regards Peter

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/SRPMS/

I believe the OP is asking, where does the centos project get them from.

and thats probably from... ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/

(adjust path as required)

Where do you get the updates released from Red Hat? I see that there are several versions of some of the packets. Are these the updates?

No, those are at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/

why there is no version 6? only 2, 3 and 4

in variious channels for various components. RedHat chose to separate out various components, such as some virtualization and clustering components, into separate "channels". CentOS, sensibly, merges them back into a single repository.

This is partly why the contents between CentOS's merged installation environment and RHEL's various "workstation", "client" "node"d my uncle benjy" channels do not precisely match CentOS's or Scientific Linux's or the older Whitebox setups.

The bare SRPM channels are available at:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos