[CentOS] 5.6 - SRPM's

Tom Brown tom at ng23.net
Mon Apr 11 10:53:03 UTC 2011


>> I'm hazarding a guess here - that the os/{i386,x86_64}/CentOS/*.rpm's that
>> have 'centos' in the name have had changes made for CentOS. The others
>> have not and the sources are available from upstream at eg
>>
>> http://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/
>>
>> Can anyone please confirm/deny that?
>
> Oh well, so much for that idea! According to the release notes
> (http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.6) there is a list
> of packages modified by centos - and that includes httpd. So the
> absence of 'centos' in the release string does _not_ mean that the
> package is unmodified (ie it's merely re-built).
>
> Sigh!!! Just have to wait for the centos SRPMS then

for me i do remove the repo's during kickstart however during an
upgrade they'll come back unless they are removed from the package.

I have just rebuilt the 5.5 release package to not have them and made
the changes to make it appear as the 5.6 release package so for me all
good.

thanks



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