[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RHEL 6 (was Re: Installing OpenSRF on RHEL5)

[Grant Johnson]

Thanks Dan,

The free as in libre is understood.
The cost of rhel lic. poses a number of complications - Agreed.
contribute, contribute, contributor. :-)

cheers

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 08:23:07PM -0300, Grant Johnson wrote:
> > Anybody got a "manual" set of dependencies to try on rhel 6?
>
> Haven't tried it, but maybe start with the fedora14 target in the
> Makefile.install for OpenSRF and Evergreen and customize from there?
> Many of the dependencies should line up (IIRC, RHEL 6 was roughly based
> on Fedora 13 with some Fedora 14 backports).
>
> FWIW, the following isn't directed specifically at you but more at the
> previous thread: support of any distribution depends on either a member
> of the community actively contributing patches to the Makefile.install &
> README.  I run Fedora personally, ergo I try to ensure that the
> Makefile.install & README track Fedora releases; most other contributors
> of patches to these files run Debian or Ubuntu LTS releases.
>
> It probably helps that Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora are all
> free-as-in-beer as well as libre, which makes it easy for an interested
> volunteer to pick up a copy and install it. In comparison, RHEL licenses
> aren't cheap; https://www.redhat.com/wapps/store/allProducts.html
> suggests the lowest price is $349 for a Server license. That's a
> significant barrier to entry. (Yes, CentOS / Scientific Linux are more
> or less equivalent, but undoubtedly the "less equivalent" will
> eventually rear its head and cause problems.)
>
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