[olug] CentOS 6.0

Jon Larsen jon at jonlarsen.us
Mon Jul 11 14:50:20 UTC 2011


On 07/11/2011 08:39 AM, Dan Linder wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 15:31, George De Bruin<sndchaser at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Now if they would just catch up to RedHat since RHEL 6.1 is out... ;)
>>
> Maybe I was a bit naive, but I thought the CentOS team had automated (or
> semi-automated) the RPM rebuild to take the RH source RPMs and build CentOS
> source and binary RPMs?
>
>  From what I've read over he past few months waiting for CentOS 6.0 to drop,
> it appears (if you ignore the personal infighting) that their internal
> system is really dependent on a hand full of people doing the work and
> building the pieces.
>
> I know it's more complex than a search-and-replace of all RedHat to CentOS
> strings, but still I've automated more complex solutions...
>
> Dan
>
I wonder if adding delta rpms contributed to the complexity of the build 
system.



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