[ale] CentOS 5.3 imminent release

[Jim Kinney]

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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