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Re: No dosutils in SL
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Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>
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Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:10:58 +0100
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Connie Sieh wrote:
> John,
>
> Because there is no srpm of these that can be used to rebuild them.  We
> cannot take the binaries.  The other RHEL3 rebuilds do not include it
> either.  Fedora does not have them anymore either.
>
> -Connie Sieh
>
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, John A. Goebel wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Is there a reason that dosutils are missing in the SL tree? For example,
>>rawrite, fips, and rdev are gone.

But we could get them built from sources, or copy from
previous RH distros - these are not distro-specific and
do not evolve much over time .. (and I'm not really sure that
EULA applies that part: the dosutils dir seems to be
all GPL'ed)

Jarek
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