Hi Morten: First, thanks for your interest in porting OSCAR to CentOS 4.
> I noticed on the web site that an OSCAR port for Fedora Core > 3 is available > -- although it is not "official". I would like to attempt to > port Oscar to > Centos 4.0, which has a very similar codebase to FC3. We are currently working on porting to RHEL4 which is what CentOS 4 is based off of - it has a small issue where you have to use lilo (as opposed to grub). Hopefully we'll be able to figure that out soon. > I've looked for a "porting guide" for Oscar, but have not > been able to find > anything. Perhaps someone can help me out? We currently don't have such a guide, but that would definitely be helpful to people (such as yourself) who wants to port OSCAR to another distribution. > Another thing is what to _call_ the distribution. CentOS is a RedHat > Enterprise Linux rebuild, and there are several other such > clones, for > example Whitebox, TaoLinux, Scientific Linux, XOS, to name a > few. All of > these would be (should be) indistinguishable from RHEL from > the computers > point of view. It would make sense to call the distribution > "rhel" as a > generic name, and to dististinguish it from "redhat". That is something we need to discuss. We are currently working on an OS Detection Framework for OSCAR which will it much easier for porters to port OSCAR to other distributions. Further details need to be ironed out and core code modified to support this. We definitely need to agree on how to identify RHEL and their various clones - like you said they are very close to each other and thus should be treated similarly. I suggest you do a search in the oscar-devel archives for 'centos' - I have previously attempted to port OSCAR to work on CentOS 3 but had some issues - these issues are still being worked on right now. If you want to play with the code, try to check out trunk as it contains most of the recent changes to support FC3 - I haven't checked in code to support RHEL4 though (it's in my local repo). Cheers, Bernard ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
