On Monday 18 February 2008, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Chris wrote: > > What Fedora version equates to Cent 5? I would like to use the Fedora > > repos (if possible). Please advise. > > You can't just use fedora produced RPMS on centos. The supporting > libraries are not the same. When the upstream SRPMS (source files) used > to create CentOS are produced (in this case RHEL-5 sources from from a > pre-release of Fedora Core 6), there is a fairly small window of time > when MOST of the supporting libraries are the same. > > By the time both distros are released however, the libraries have > usually changed to the point that you SHOULD NEVER use fedora RPMS > directly on CentOS.
I completely agree and would just like to add that what you _should_ be looking for when repo/rpm-hunting is rpms/repos for el5. Repos don't provides different builds for different el-clones... /Peter > If you really want functionality that is not in CentOS, RPMForge, > ATRPMS, EPEL, or KBS-CentOS-Extras but is in fedora, then you should > rebuild the SRPMS against the CentOS libraries. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes
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