On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 17:05 +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> Hi, I want to take a SRPM that is available for various versions of Fedora
> and rebuild it on a CentOS 4 system.
>
> Which release of Fedora is the closest to CentOS 4? In other words, which
> would be the best FC to take the SRPM for?
Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux
Originally, Red Hat based Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Red Hat Linux, but
using a much more conservative release cycle. Later versions leveraged
technologies from Fedora which is a community distribution and project
that Red Hat sponsors. Roughly every third version of Red Hat Linux
(RHL) or Fedora forms the basis for a version of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, thus:
* Red Hat Linux 6.2 → Red Hat Linux 6.2E
* Red Hat Linux 7.2 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
* Red Hat Linux 9 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
* Fedora Core 3 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
* Fedora Core 6 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
* Fedora 9 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (projected)
IIRC the RHEL (and thus CentOS) branches from Fedora have been from late
test versions rather than the final releases. I have had pretty good
luck building packages from a Fedora release or 2 later than the branch
version on CentOS. My $0.02 is to try the latest SRPM for a particular
package that will build successfully, rather than going all the way back
to FC3 for EL4-based systems. You will often need to build dependencies
from Fedora as well. Probably goes without saying, but check the 3rd
party repos first before embarking on custom builds.
http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories
Phil
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