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

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Fri Jan 17 20:48:46 UTC 2014


On 01/17/2014 01:57 PM, Always Learning wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 13:53 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
>> What the heck are you talking about ... rpmbuild -ba <name>.src.rpm
>>
>> It builds if you install the proper packages from the CentOS repos.
>>
>> Using mock and a CentOS Tree can reproduce CentOS just as easily.
>>
>> We are creating git.centos.org so that everyone can look at and build
>> any of the packages.
>>
>> We are creating a variants program so that projects can take CentOS as
>> a base and create (on our servers) respins of the ISOs and/or
>> repositories that get branded as CentOS.  They can collaborate, ON OUR
>> SYSTEMS, to build things for the community to use.
>
> Sounds interesting and exciting. Its needs to get more publicity.
>

The centos-devel mailing list has had more traffic in the last 10 days
than it had in the previous 9 months ... I'd say that some people have
figured it out :)

It is also a link on the front page to variants/SIGs:

http://www.centos.org/variants/

We are not ready to actually create these yet, as we need to get more
infrastructure and processes in place ... but we are discussing how we
are going to do it and getting ready now.

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