On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 03:16, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> The SourceRPMS will be a combined group for x86, ia64, ppc, and x86_64.
> No need to release 4 separate media sets since the same SRPMS are used
> for each distro for 99.9% for the packages. Combining gives the user
> more Bittorrent seeds for the content and takes up much less diskspace.
>
> We are putting the finishing touches on the SRPMS as we work on x86_64,
> in case any other SRPMS need changing to build that final release of
> that product.
>
> Expect a full DVD (and cd set) for SRPMS with (or very soon after) the
> x86_64 release.
Excellent news!
> BTW ... all the files we changed are in the SRPMS now ... all the other
> source files are the ones from the upstream vendor ... and are available
> here:
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/
>
> or here:
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/4AS/en/os/SRPMS/
I guessed that this was probably the case, but since I had not seen any
official announcement I wanted to make sure.
Thanks to you and the rest of the people working on CentOS. I really
appreciate all of the effort that you have put into releasing and
updating CentOS.
Regards,
David Mellor.
