On Jan 26, 2008 1:13 AM, Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:51:36PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > The trick would be RH to freely release RHEL instead of forcing others > > > to recompile packages, such these guys can contribute to EPEL instead > > > of having to waste their time and resources on rebuilding. > > > > No disagreement here. > > They don't even need to release "RHEL", but only the packages except > for the trademark packages (images etc.), so that Fedora can simply > create a distro out of it. > > <I_am_not_a_lawyer> > > Havig said that, in the past I have heard RH people saying that they > don't understand why people are rebuilding the binaries (except > trademark packages etc. of course), as they (the single packages, > not RHEL as a "composition") may be distributed freely. > The issues usually come down to how many packages are covered by the trademark. CentOS has to make a lot patches to take out trademarks in documentation, programs etc... and even after spending 2 weeks on 5.0... we missed 10 or so packages. Then there are various things that are 'broken' if you don't use the RHN system (that was one or two issues). There is also the fact that RHEL sometimes doesn't supply all the packages from an RPM (this was much the case in 2 and 3, less than 4 & 5). Finally RH uses hidden build flags which have to be found out to get a package to match that.. which of course gets people wondering why they do it on this package etc which gets either conspiracy talking or people who will rebuild the package until they get a match. > Either this is not true, or nobody has ever done the work to find > this out in detail. > > </I_am_not_a_lawyer> > > -- > -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> > -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 > -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
