On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/22/11 7:38 PM, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: >> >> You missed my point to the poster. While Centos is my defacto >> production OS, he mentioned switching to Ubuntu which is nothing like >> RHEL. >> >> So I thought instead of going with such a diff paradigm, that using SL >> might be more similar in tool set then Ubuntu. >> > > But if the underlying issue is that Red Hat is intentionally making the rebuilds > difficult, any derivative is going to be fragile. > > -- > Les Mikesell The change doesn't make anything more difficult for rebuilds. http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/red_hat_twarts_oracle_and_novell_with_change_to_source_code_packaging/ "We haven't at all restricted CentOS's ability to grab source code and recompile it and clean-out trademarks and package it. It's just some of the knowledge of the insides that we're hiding," he [Red Hat chief technology officer Brian Stevens] explains. One longtime CentOS developer agrees. "I'll not lose sleep on the matter," CentOS co-founder Russ Herold tells The Reg. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-March/107338.html "This should not impact building the kernel ... it might impact things like the CentOSPlus Kernel or CentOS providing a "stop gap" kernel (in the testing repo) while waiting for Red Hat to correct a problem and get their kernel through engineering and then released." -- William Hooper