[ale] CentOS 5.3 imminent release

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 12:03:56 EDT 2009


Yes. This is correct. RHEL 5.3 is src.rpm for CentOS 5.3. RHEL 5.3
pulls in stable code from Fedora up through F9.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Brian <nym.bnm at gmail.com> wrote:
> CentOS is based on the RHEL 5.3 sources, no question.
>
> However, the source for RHEL 5.3 comes from bits harvested from the
> Fedora tree, in this case, a good share is Fedora 9 bits, with
> backports and such as customer demand/support issues require.
>
> bnm
>
> 2009/3/24 scott mcbrien <smcbrien at gmail.com>:
>> My understanding of the CentOS build process is that they take the src RPMs
>> from Red Hat's RHEL distro, remove the trademarked and copyrighted content
>> and compile new binary packages.  Am I reading this right that 5.3 is not
>> based on RHEL 5.3, but instead F9?  I know Red Hat has backported features
>> and fixes into the 2.6.19 source fork of the RHEL kernel, I thought that
>> CentOS would be using the same sources...
>> -Scott
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> For those waiting with baited breath for CentOS 5.3, please go use
>>> mouthwash.
>>>
>>> However, it looks like CentOS 5.3 may make release this weekend. If I
>>> understand the upstream notes correctly (unlikely but hopeful), it is
>>> based from the Fedora 9 environment with kernel patches back to 2.6.19
>>> or thereabouts for recent hardware. This also should provide a
>>> forward-looking environment for a stable desktop similar to F9 with
>>> the library structure of F8.
>>>
>>> Get yer bittorrents ready...
>>>
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