Re: New Project: HOWTO Freely Obtain Our Source

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From: "Eric Christensen" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: New Project: HOWTO Freely Obtain Our Source


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?
While the repo is an obvious answer, it is really only interesting to 
Fedorans.  Sources in the repos are wrapped up in these mysterious "rpm" 
files.  Yeah, if you have any Linux you can use file-roller, but what if you 
are coming from Windows?  Those things might as well be encrypted.
Of course, lots of stuff is in git, and you can look freely with just a web 
browser.  But is everything?  Other stuff is in CVS.  How do you know?
--McD

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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