[Discuss] Oracle Linux, going after CentOs

[cra at WPI.EDU (Chuck Anderson)]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:19:59AM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 7/27/2012 10:17 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> >"The base SL distribution is basically Enterprise Linux, recompiled
> >from source.
> 
> I am aware of what Scientific Linux is.  I been running an SL shop
> for the last two and a half years with nodes spanning SL 3 through
> SL 6 inclusive.
> 
> 
> >I'm not sure what you mean by mixing EL packages with SL packages--why
> >would you mix RHEL, CentOS, and SL packages on the same system?  Or do
> >you mean third party software?
> 
> The EPEL repository.  There are packages in EPEL that run just fine
> on RHEL and CentOS but cause conflicts on SL.  In my experience, if
> it wasn't compiled on Scientific Linux then there is a non-zero
> chance that it won't play nice with Scientific Linux.

I'm using EPEL just fine with SL6.

The only way it should cause conflicts is if you installed "extra" SL
packages that didn't come from the original vendor (RHEL).