CentOS - May 2005 - Newbie Query about Centos: where it is going...

Hi all

Just joined this list. Am presently a whitebox 4 & FC 3 user. Have
some questions about this distro...hope someone...maybe the list-owner
or the power centers in this list will deign to reply ;-)

- Site seems to say...Basic Centos will remain same as RHEL...is that
absolute code/binary /naming & path compatibility? Is this for ever.
ConfirmedDDD?

- Somewhere else it says addons will be there....again sure that these
will be seperate in extras but will keep the RHEL conventions?
ConfirmedDDD?

- Now about creating a local repository...I create a local repository
of all software I use and other computers installed in our company can
use. At this time we are charged by the MB, so can't be public. So
what repository do I rsync with? East US woulb be best for me...but I
don't think I should hog on layer 1 repositories...so please do guide.

On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 23:35 +0530, Sanjay Arora wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Just joined this list. Am presently a whitebox 4 & FC 3 user. Have
> some questions about this distro...hope someone...maybe the list-owner
> or the power centers in this list will deign to reply ;-)
> 
> - Site seems to say...Basic Centos will remain same as RHEL...is that
> absolute code/binary /naming & path compatibility? Is this for ever.
> ConfirmedDDD?
> 
On the Mirrors, there are several directories ... and here is a readme:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/Readme.txt

> - Somewhere else it says addons will be there....again sure that these
> will be seperate in extras but will keep the RHEL conventions?
> ConfirmedDDD?
> 
The directory addons is for things that are required to be added to get
CentOS to build .... or for things that build when rebuilding the SRPMS,
but that are not in RHEL proper because they we left out.  On RHEL-3,
that would be several items.  In RHEL-4, there were no major items
> - Now about creating a local repository...I create a local repository
> of all software I use and other computers installed in our company can
> use. At this time we are charged by the MB, so can't be public. So
> what repository do I rsync with? East US woulb be best for me...but I
> don't think I should hog on layer 1 repositories...so please do guide.
If you take a look here:
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13

There are 6 US mirrors with RSYNC ... any of them should be OK.
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On 5/29/05, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:
> > - Site seems to say...Basic Centos will remain same as RHEL...is that
> > absolute code/binary /naming & path compatibility? Is this for
ever.
> > ConfirmedDDD?
> >
> On the Mirrors, there are several directories ... and here is a readme:
> 
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/Readme.txt
This link does not tell about future of CentOS. I ask again...Will
CentOS always retain 100% compatibility with RHEL, aside from 
contribs & addons which will remain seperate from the main distro and
will be installed on user selection only.

Sanjay.