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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:21:42 -0600
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We could have got it from RedHat 9.  But the last time I moved over GPL
binaries everyone thought that I was breaking some license rule.

If someone will rebuild them from scratch I will put them in.

-connie

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Jaroslaw
Polok wrote:

> 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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