Re: OS builds

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> ons 2007-05-02 klockan 17:53 +1200 skrev Amos Jeffries:
>
>> 'Name thy OS' would be those seen in squid-users where people are stuck
>> with old 2.6 or 2.5 etc. The culprits seemed to be RedHat and CentOS.
>
> RedHat already provides up to date builds for RHEL. Not officially
> supported, but at least provided..
>
> Also, the Fedora SRPMS rebuilds just fine on RHEL.
>
> The culpit with most RHEL users is that their management does not allow
> them upgrades outside RHEL, so they are stuck with whatever RedHat
> provides in their support channel. And for some reason most Centos users
> seems to reason the same, but without being bound to a support channel..
>
>
> What I think we should do is to provide a repository of vendor
> distributions. There is many, and supricingly many users don't know
> where to find the latest version from their vendor.
>
> Regards
> Henrik

That was my initial suggestion. I'm all for an 'official release builds'
page for both supported versions. Linked either from the main index and
from the /v2/2.6/* , /v3/3.0/* pages.

Compile farm was more of an idea to fill the obvious gaps without giving
any of us more work.

Amos
Received on Wed May 02 2007 - 17:07:10 MDT