On 09/01/14 23:13, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> SL is an exact match to RHEL with only a few variations such as the
> removed the client for Red Hats support site integration and added a
> few things like AFS because their labs need it. The differences are
> well documented in the release notes and its a short list.
> In addition SL guarantees long term patch availability even if Red Hat
> is no longer supporting that release.
This wasn't my understanding. According to this page
https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions ...
" * We plan on following the TUV Life Cycle. Provided TUV continues to
make the source rpms publicly available."
... which disagrees with your statement. At least the way I read it.


>
> CentOS tends to do thing like update the PHP libraries to make it
> easier for web developers. And as a result they take longer for many
> security patches because they occasionally hit dependency issues due
> to the packages they have updated.
>
I am pretty sure the base release does not do this kind of thing by
default. It would be a major deviation from being "binary compatible"
with upstream vendor, which is how I recall their stated goal to be. It
may be optional, however.


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> On Jan 9, 2014 13:17, Orion Poplawski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> On 01/09/2014 05:54 AM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote:.
> > What technical differences would be between CentOS + scientific repo
> and SL?
> >
> > Just a personal thought, but maybe this would free some human resources
> > for maintaining a lot of scientific (and IT/grid related) packages in
> > well established repos (like epel, fedora/rpmfusion)
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Adrian
> >
>
> Well, for me the main difference between CentOS and SL is that with SL
> you can
> stay on EL point releases. That would require a major change in the
> CentOS
> infrastructure to support it. Worth exploring though...
>
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