on 3/24/2011 9:49 AM Coy Hile spake the following: > 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. > > Thanks, > > -Coy That is like asking " I have a scalpel, how do I do brain surgery in the mirror?" Getting the scalpel is easy... It is the magic of actually producing a working distro that is the difficult part. If it was easy enough for every one to do it, it would already be out and sync'd to the mirrors.