On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 07:23:44AM +1100, Damien Miller wrote: > Nobody disputes Redhat's right to fork OpenSSH, but why does > Redhat not make their desired changes through the standard RPM > patching mechanism? By distributing their own OpenSSH tarballs > instead of patching pristine sources, Redhat breaks the link of > transparency, accountability and trust that their own RPM build > model is supposed to provide. They do the same for "xmms", for example, to eliminate MP3 support *and also not ship MP3 source code*, due to possible legal issues. Although I do not know this case, I guess a similar reason applies here: they explicitly do not want to ship certain source code included in the original tarball and just applying a patch in the spec file does not help for that, you need to modify the tarball. -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204
