On 6 November 2010 12:00, Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote: > I use CentOS + EPEL as a base and include specific packages from > RPMForge, using includepkgs in the /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo > file. > > For example my (very personal) package list from RPMForge: Thanks a lot for the detailed and helpful answer. You answered all my questions! In particular I had never heard of RPMForge, I will check it. > An approach is then to look at earlier Fedora versions until you find > a version of the software which is still compatible with the CentOS > libraries. > CentOS is more or less compatible with Fedora 6, but I found that up > to Fedora 9 most packages rebuild easily I checked my local mirror and it has packages from Fedora 7 onwards, so there seem to be a way.