I've been following the discussions on this list about the changes in RHEL's
source availability and I'd like to confirm my understanding of the current
situation.
Someone on another mail list made this comment:
RedHat have said that they'll not be releasing source RPMs any more, so
the response by the Scientific Linux people has more or less been
"Either use CentOS or our very own re-packaged CentOS thingie".
This is incorrect (in terms of both statements that it makes), isn't it.
Here is my current understanding. Please feel free to correct or confirm:-
1) RH now makes SRPMs available only to customers (but SRPMs are nevertheless
still available on those terms).
2) The RHEL source is publicly also available on git.centos.org.
3) But it is not *absolutely* crystal clear what on git.centos.org is pure
unadulterated RHEL source and what is CentOS source.
4) The SL project is writing tools to automatically extract RHEL source from
git.centos.org.
5) SL7 will therefore be based on RHEL7 and definitely not on CentOS.
6) Anything I've forgotten?
Thanks to anyone who can help with this.
