On 3/24/2011 11:49 AM, Coy Hile wrote: > In looking at the various FAQs, I haven't seen an answer to this, so I > thought I would pose it here. Where/how do the CentOS maintainers get > the SRPMS from the upstream vendor? The reason I ask is more a > question of given DVDs of all the SRPMs, how does one go about > spinning up an installable ISO? I'm thinking from the perspective of > rolling my own ISO until CentOS 6 came out. > The srpms are here: http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/, but note that the build is non-trivial and has already been done by Scientific Linux (http://www.scientificlinux.org/). Their version isn't as exact a copy of the upstream binaries as CentOS plans to produce but it is suitable for general use and likely better than anyone could do as their first attempt. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com