Hi David, Thank you for that. A valuable piece of information for the future.
Regards Andreas Mock > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: David Sommerseth [mailto:[email protected]] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. September 2014 16:52 > An: Andreas Mock; Patrick J. LoPresti; Pat Riehecky > Cc: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Questions about SL 7.0 > > 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
