On 2/17/2011 11:45 AM, Remi Collet wrote: > >> We've had a php-5.2 in c5-testing which was based on the rhwas sources >> from upstream. Quite a few people have that package in production at >> various places however, this looks mostly unsupported upstream now. >> >> Would someone like to adopt the 5.2 packages, bring them upto 5.2.17 and >> maintain it going forward for c5 ? >> > > Sorry but I think this will be a terrible mistake > (even if I'm going to hurt some people) > > AFAIK, CentOS is a RHEL clone. > > So, cloning package for RHEL is ok > Cloning package from RHWAS is also ok (in a sub-repository, of course) > > RHWAS provides php-5.2.10-1.el5s2 as should CentOS > > I think that providing packages which are not RH's upstream introduce a > terrible confusion for final users. > > I think this is definitively something for third party repositories. > > > So, to resume, is CentOS a clone or a fork of RHEL ? http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories (note the extras/plus repos) If you enable the non-default CentOSPlus repo, it might be reasonable to consider it a fork. But, anything that can co-exist with a stock RHEL distro probably belongs in EPEL or one of the other repos used by RHEL and all clones. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com