[CentOS] redistribution of isolinux binaries

Tue Oct 13 16:51:07 UTC 2015
Brian Reichert <reichert at numachi.com>

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:42:08AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> The info you are looking at there is for CentOS-7 .. the syslinux for
> CentOS-6 is here:
> 
> http://vault.centos.org/6.7/os/Source/SPackages/syslinux-4.04-3.el6.src.rpm
> 
> The CentOS team did not modify that source code, we just built it as is.
> 
> That source code produces the syslinux binary used by CentOS-6 (from the
> syslinux-4.04-3.el6.x86_64.rpm (ir i386) RPM).
> 
> As to how that happens, we simply use the rpmbuild command to produce
> the syslinux RPMs, which when installed provide the binary file in question.

Cool!  That makes perfect sense to me, and satisfies all of my
original points/questions.  Thanks again; make my research much
easier. :)

> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes

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Brian Reichert				<reichert at numachi.com>
BSD admin/developer at large