On 09/01/14 23:13, Paul Robert Marino
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type="cite">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.
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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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