[Centos] Issues/thoughts re CentOS-4

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 14:16 -0500, Andy Masiar wrote:
> > But this is why I am asking which RHEL branch CEntos follows mainly because
> > I had gone through Redhat comparison documentation. Is Centos 3.3 based on
> > RHEL AS which has higher limits or RHEL ES which has lower ones. Is it
> > possible to base it to RHEL AS? 
> 
> I don't think that the srpms packages make a distinction whether they
> belong to AS or ES. AFAIK theres only two or thee packages in AS that
> are not present in ES (clustering, HA)
> 

Redhat adds artificial restraints to ES ... CentOS has all the RPMS
(including those from the Extras disc).  It is based on RHEL AS.
 
> I think that AS and ES distinction applies mostly to RedHat's support
> level and hardware limitations.
> 
> 
> > Is the SRPMS for RHEL built on a RHEL AS
> > build computer to generate CEntos RPMS?
> 
> No idea. Would that make a difference?
> 

It makes no difference where you compile the files.