On 02/27/2014 12:05 AM, Alexander Arlt wrote: >>> So, you turned the cow into a bird. And you did this just because you >>> >>want to have a single distribution. That's fine. It kinda feels weird, >>> >>but if it's the way you want it, it's fine. But don't you think it would >>> >>have been easier - and probably less nerve-wracking - to just use a more >>> >>birdish-type of material? >> > >> >Much of the point of free software is the fact that once something has >> >been done once, any number of copies of it 'just work' for no extra >> >cost. So, the missing piece here is just a reasonable way for >> >someone else to duplicate the setup. > Again, there is the assumption that there is a reasonable way for > duplicating this setup. RHEL and CentOS have a very clear focus on what > they want to achieve. > Actually, I created everything for 6.x when 6.0 came out. And all I do now is to add new versions of packages from some repositories and manual downloads, or to add some new repository is I come across it. Only thing I never bothers to do is to release release rpm's with all of that packaged, mostly because I disabled GPG signatures so I do not want to raise suspicions that I messed with packages. But just now I was reading on "cost" option for yum repositories (totally unusable) and I saw that I can assign several GPG keys to single repository, so I might pick up on my "DentOS" project :) -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant