Hello,
thanks for your answers.
On 17 June 2014 00:59, Jim Perrin jperrin@centos.org wrote:
By using CentOS as the basis and not RHEL 7 we could have all the
channels
that are not used at the moment for building.
As much as I'd like to see CentOS as the basis for *everything* (I may be a bit biased here), I don't think this is a good idea.
RHEL packages by their very nature will come out first. This puts EPEL in a position to work with them immediately, and to remain impartial across the rebuilding community (springdale/puias, centos, SL, that database company, etc). If CentOS lags behind for some unforseen reason, why put everyone else out until we get our act together? Same with every other rebuild. We know RHEL packages will be out on time every time because they're the ones delivering them.
Aren't we already using CentOS for EPEL 5 and 6 in the koji/mock buildroots? 32 bit aside, what is the difference for 7? This has been dealt nicely so far.
To me, the only current time it would make sense for CentOS to be the base repo would be for something RHEL doesn't ship, such as x86 or other arch.
Considering we had CentOS in the buildroots, how have updates been managed up to now? From my experience I can see CentOS package updates come almost immediately after RHEL ones.
Regards, --Simone