[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

Mon Mar 21 11:13:31 UTC 2011
Marko A. Jennings <markobiz at bluegargoyle.com>

On Mon, March 21, 2011 5:51 am, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Marko A. Jennings wrote:
>> On Sun, March 20, 2011 7:29 pm, William Warren wrote:
>>> their changes are really aimed at oracle..the rest is smoke and
>>> mirrors..:)  oracle is basically(pardon me here) Centos with charges.
>>> That's basically all oracle is going with unbreakable Linux.
>>
>> Not just Oracle.  Novell is actively pursuing Red Hat customers and
>> offering to support their Red Hat installations cheaper than Read Hat
>> does.  I know a large international technology company which buys RHEL
>> licenses only for the first year and then switches to Novell for support
>> after that.
>
> Does Novell provide their own updates (RHEL rebuilds) or how does this
> exactly work ? I doubt Novell can redistribute RHEL binaries in this case.

As far as I understand (I don't have first-hand knowledge of this aspect
of their offering), Novell is providing their own updates.

Here is the link to their web page that advertises 30 day free support for
RHEL: http://www.novell.com/promo/suse/free-30days-expanded-support.html

Marko