On 03/09/14 10:33, Andreas Mock wrote: > Hi Pat, hi Patrick, > > thanks for your answers and comments. > > How would someone like me get a SRPM for a binary package found or installed > on > a SL 7.0 system?
yumdownloader --source $PKGNAME -- kind regards, David Sommerseth >> Von: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[email protected]] >> Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. September 2014 23:22 >> An: Pat Riehecky >> Cc: Andreas Mock; [email protected] >> Betreff: Re: AW: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Questions about SL 7.0 >> >> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Pat Riehecky <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The sources were taken from git. They were then compared to the >>> sources from the public Release Candidate provided by upstream on April >> 22 2014. >>> There were very few changes from this Release Candidate to the >>> official release. >> >> Nice work. >> >>> All the Security/Enhancement/Bugfix code comes out of git as the >>> source rpms for these were never publicly released. >> >> Does this mean there is no way to correlate security/bugfix updates from >> Red Hat with the changes in git, and therefore no way to know how far SL is >> diverging from RHEL over time? >> >> Is the git tree entirely RHEL + released updates, or are unreleased CentOS >> changes mixed in as well? >> >> Presumably, anyone with a RHEL subscription (and the right tools) could >> compare the git repository against the update SRPMs, at least to tell you >> whether they are the same. Would that be a violation of the subscription >> terms, I wonder? >> >> Just curious. >> >> - Pat -- kind regards, David Sommerseth
