On Friday, March 08, 2013 11:16:30, Allen wrote: > In the process of solving a recent F18 problem it was suggested to me that > I examine the grub2 source code. A standard way of obtaining the source > code for Fedora packages is to download the srpm. yumdownloader can be > used for this. I recently happened upon the Fedora Package Database and > noticed it offers access to source code. > > Fedora 18 uses grub2 v2.00 (current install is grub2-2.00-15.fc18.i686). > Viewing the Fedora package database entry for grub2 > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/grub2.git/ (the portion labelled > "download") I don't see anything more recent than grub2 version 1.98 for > Fedora 14. Does anyone have any ideas why there is nothing there more > recent?
If you clone the Git repo you've listed above, it contains only patches, not the grub2 source code. I suspect that this is a repository for patches that are meant to be put against the upstream Grub2 source code: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-download.html A little further searching for source packages for Fedora 18 led to this: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=374015 However I think I've found something even better. You can download the source RPM via this command: 'yumdownloader --source grub2' Hopefully you'll know what to do from there. > The Fedora Project documentation relating to package maintenance talks > about using "fedpkg" to access packages in git. It seems to me that the > Fedora Package database would be the most convenient way for an end-user > (non- maintainer) to view (without intent to modify) Fedora package source > code if it worked the way I'm assuming it should. If it's anything like /Debian/ packaing with Git, not much will work like you expect it to. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi Mar 6 - 10th Anniversary Meeting - Linux where you least expect it Apr 3 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art
