2008/10/11 Ralph Angenendt <ralph+fedora(a)strg-alt-entf.org>:
Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> 2008/10/11 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>:
>> CentOS should be putting out betas that match the RHEL betas so that you
>> can get access to it before the release. Use Fedora as the technology
>> driver, use Betas as the bugfix cleanup for platform issues, and
>> eventually you get the "Enterprise" release.
>
> I think the major problem with CentOS putting out beta's in a timely
> basis is that a large amount of time is getting the build resources
> together AND then deciphering various build variables that RHEL uses
> so that the CentOS binaries 'match' close enough to be bug for bug
> compatible. The time to do that basically had a CentOS-5beta out at
> the time that RHEL-5 is finalized.
Not having publicly available SRPMs for the beta versions (meaning
available via public ftp) might be another reason.
I thought the SRPMS were available, as Scientific Linux uses the
public ones to build their Betas.
I thought it was more a level of priority. CentOS is a volunteer
project with a lot of costs shouldered by the developers. There is
usually a shortage of diskspace, slow net links to various build
machines spread around the world, the fact that various devs have full
time jobs (there is no full-time build manager like Fedora and SciLin
have), and various other items. Any of which puts making betas a lower
priority than dealing with current issues.
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