On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/18/2016 09:06 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Karanbir Singh <kbsingh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >> Hash: SHA1
> >>
> >> On 18/04/16 14:15, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
> >>> Thanks. I imagine (hope?) there shouldn't be too much effort to get
> >>> this to work, since it's already been done upstream. RedHat
> >>> continues to push out updates even. E.g.
> >>> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html
> >>>
> >>
> >> that looks like Supplementary content - we've never had that before.
> >>
> >> what we might need to do here is work the upstream beyond Red Hat
> >> where this works done, that makes it Supplementary content and not
> >> completely open source. Do we atleast know at this point what that
> >> might be ?
> >>
> >> regards
> >>
> >> - --
> >> Karanbir Singh, Project Lead, The CentOS Project
> >
> >
> > I suspect it has to do with their "pepperflash" flash plugin.
> >
> > Clearly flash is on the way out, so any support for it is not necessary.
> >
>
> It is indeed not completely open source. I was told that the agreement
> between Red Hat and Google only allows the RPMs for RHEL to be released
> to subscribers on the supplemental channel.
>
> Sorry, but I can't release it.
>
>
>
That was my understanding, that we have a "political" (really legal) issue,
not a technical issue. I hope Karanbir can re-visit this with RedHat.
Does anyone have a cookbook for building chromium under CentOS 6?
Johnny, do you think you could release the steps you took to build what you
did?
--
Matt Phelps
System Administrator, Computation Facility
Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
mphelps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu
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