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. > > > -- Sent from my HP Pre3 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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... > > > -- > Orion Poplawski > Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 > NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 > 3380 Mitchell Lane [log in to unmask] > Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.nwra.com