On Fri, 4 Jul 2014, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Users interested in Scientific Linux 7 ALPHA can review:
>>
>> http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1407&L=scientific-linux-devel&T=0&X=30246605F08F0DC7ED&P=74
>>
>> --
>> Pat Riehecky
>>
>> Scientific Linux developer
>> http://www.scientificlinux.org/
>
> OK, I'm *impressed*. Did our faithful packagers work from an RHEL
> susbscription's SRPM's, or resolve the confusing new layout of the
> https://git.centos.org repository?
>
> There was already a copy in my local rsync mirror, and I'm happy to
> install from there and keep the lod off your servers. Getting the
> alpha into people's hands this quickly is one of the reasons I've come
> to personally prefer Scientific Linux over CentOS.
>

Many of the packages were built from the src.rpms provided by TUV for the 
public release candidate for RHEL 7 that was released in April.  All of 
the packages that were released after the Release Candidate were built 
from TUV source from git.centos.org .

-Connie Sieh