Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
On 03.02.2008 18:52, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Feb 3, 2008 7:37 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora(a)leemhuis.info> wrote:
>
>>> whether to run against CentOS or the private RHEL repos
>> I'd prefer the private RHEL repos if that's possible without to much
>> trouble. CentOS would be fine as well, but there are small differences
>> (no PPC (yet) for example; small delay with updates, new releases)
> Well how many people have PPC :)?
No idea :)
> Actually I was going to look at testing against both.
Yeah, might be a good idea.
> This allows us
> to catch items where CentOS has something and RHEL doesn't..
Well, no offense, but that's afaics would be a bug in CentOS, as they
aim to be compatible.
Uhm no. Red Hat does not always ship various -devel and some other
packages when a package was built. CentOS also has made sure that you
get everything that would have come from a package so that you could use
it to do other development. This was a big problem in 2/3 and a bit in
4. I think 5 may not have had this issue.
> and if
> something conflicts with the CentOS 'extras' repo so that problems can
> be managed correctly.
Good idea.
But on the other hand: the repotag wars were now nearly a year ago and
one of the bad guys (/me) leaves soon. Maybe we could somehow come over
it and make peace with the CentOS guys and work together in a better way
that works better for both sides? That was my and afaics everybody's
else plan when we started EPEL, but didn't happen due some
mis-communication and misunderstandings (that's the short story and I
blame myself for a few of those issues that lead to the current
situation) in the initial EPEL start phase.
That is my hope. I can't say that it will happen, but I will work
towards it.