Re: New Project: HOWTO Freely Obtain Our Source

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On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:53, Mikkel L. Ellertson
<mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I guess I don't see the problem - the source RPMs are normally
> available from the same mirrors as the binary RPMs. It is just a
> matter of enabling the source repo (It is in the config, just
> disabled.) and selecting the source RPM you want. This way, you get
> the "virgin source" plus the patches that Fedora is using. The .spec
> file normally has a pointer to the upstream web site as well, just
> in case it isn't in the source package.

And that is one way of obtaining a version of the source.  But how did
you know you could get the source from the repos?  Is that were ALL
the source files?

>
> It has been a long time, but I sort of remember coming across
> documentation covering this. (It may have been RedHat documentation
> from before Fedora...)
>
> Mike

Eric

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