Hello and merry x-mas everyone,
For those who wonder when a new version of SIM ISO will be, it's "real
soon now". The reason why it is taking such a long time is because the
next version will be based on CentOS 3, a RHEL 3 clone.
Fedora is moving too fast to do proper testing, and they discontinue
the updates almost as soon as the new version is out, while RHEL 3
(and therefore CentOS 3) is supported until 2008. This means that
there will be fewer components to check between each release.
Of course, changing base distribution isn't exactly painless - the
original build script are very Fedora centric (even if FC is a RH
sponsored RH clone, it is not just plug-and-play) and it takes some
time to re-write and double-check all the processes.
The missing component right now is the core OSSIM packages, and that
is the real reason why I write this email: I need to get hold of the
.src.rpm (or the RPM build script) so I can re-compile OSSIM and it's
dependencies against CentOS 3. I would greatly appreciate if anyone
could upload or email me the .src.rpm and/or build script so I can
feed my auto builder I just finished building ;)
Best regards
Michael Boman
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