On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:36:52AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> As a total side-question though, just for personal curiousity...
>
> 1) How many people actually download the SRPMS disk images?
I routinely download the SRPMS, though I grab them from the SRPMS/
directories on the servers. Not much interest in the disk images,
since after a few weeks there are dozens if not hundreds of updates.
> 2) How many people actually really use them for anything?
I keep SRPMS for several reasons:
o Local modifications
I routinely patch:
kernel
grub
SysVinit
initscripts
util-linux
openssh
iptables
iproute
ulogd
nfs-utils
patch
xterm
vnc
quagga
xpdf
mdadm
postgresql
pgadmin3
valgrind
gnumeric
gaim
...
o Creating compat-* packages. I've been saving the various
Red Hat compat-*.src.rpm for many years, and when necessary,
rolling my own.
When we roll forward to a new distribution, we (re-)build
compat-* versions of various tools and libraries. I've got
vendor object-code interface libraries from RH6.2 and RH7.3. :-(
SO, e.g., I coaxed compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.126.src.rpm into building
on FC4/FC5t2.
o Locally-maintained packages.
As some packages have been removed from RH/FC, we have had to
maintain them locally. I recently convinced the RHAS 2.1
metamail to build on FC4/FC5t2 x86_64, using patches taken from
the original RH package, SuSE, PLD, and local modifications.
Also, it's not always the case that newer is better ...
Regards,
Bill Rugolsky
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