Re: The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

[Tom H <tomh0665@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:34 AM, compdoc <compdoc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> RHEL and opensuse are different - defferent kernels, different config
>>> files
>>> and slightly different locations for some config files.
>>>
>>> It's not like one is a drop in replacement for the other, so it doesn't
>>> make
>>> sense to me that a business would buy RHEL support and then switch to
>>> opensuse.
>>
>> Did you read the SUSE page?!
>>
>> They are offering to support the RHEL install(s) not to replace RHEL
>> by SUSE, just like Oracle.
>
> Did we read the same page? When you buy Novell (SUSE) support for RedHat
> EL, you will still run your original RedHat EL installation but then
> update packages rebuilt by Novell. Technically that's the same like adding
> the CentOS repo config to your RedHat installation and then install all
> updates from CentOS instead of RedHat. What a mess, why would anyone in
> the world want this? And then pay $ for the mess...

Same page. They're not installing SUSE, they're offering to support
and update RHEL installs.

I know a company that has a few RHEL installs whose RHN subs have
expired and which they're updating through CentOS repos. Not anything
that I'd be willing to do or support but if Oracle's charging to do
something similar to that, they must've tested and tested and tested,
and decided that they have a way of doing it reliably.
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