[CentOS-devel] CentOS betas (was: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]])

Sat Oct 11 20:41:30 UTC 2008
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote:
> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Ralph Angenendt
>> > Publically(sp?) available SRPMs for betas aren't available, AFAIR.
>> >
>>
>> Actually they have been but the additional licenses on distribution of
>> parts of it have been a problem. I think there was a beta of CentOS-5
>> out.
>
> I'm rather sure that those weren't rebuilt from sources from ftp.redhat.com.

I have no idea.. but thought that the usual reasons is that with a
long list of tasks.. jumping to build betas falls behind real life.



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