[CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

Sat Jan 18 18:15:22 UTC 2014
Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu>

On 01/17/2014 03:33 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> wrote:
>> Anyway, if you want a wide-open Linux, Les, you know where to get it.
> Sigh..., It's complicated.

Complicated is a good word...

>   But, the bigger question is where it leaves us if
> they just decide to quit after assimilating most of the related
> systems under a build ecosystem that no one else can reproduce easily.
>
There is no secret sauce to the buildsystem.  It's not like we're 
converting TRS-80 Model II TRSDOS files to LS-DOS or anything here, 
where things aren't well-documented or completely undocumented.

I have reproduced to an extent the buildsystem for CentOS 5 on IA64, and 
with a little nudging in the right direction by some folks I was able to 
figure it out.  The hard part, as as been said I don't know how many 
times, is getting the x.0's first tree's dependency tree and build 
sequence correct with the buildroot populated with a good starter set of 
packages (and this is very well documented in the Fedora documentation).

Anyway, the current work with seven.centos.org is a really good start.

But we really shouldn't feed the trolls.