On 03/09/14 10:33, Andreas Mock wrote:
> Hi Pat, hi Patrick,
> 
> thanks for your answers and comments.
> 
> How would someone like me get a SRPM for a binary package found or installed on
> a SL 7.0 system?

yumdownloader --source $PKGNAME


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>> Von: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. September 2014 23:22
>> An: Pat Riehecky
>> Cc: Andreas Mock; [log in to unmask]
>> Betreff: Re: AW: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Questions about SL 7.0
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> The sources were taken from git.  They were then compared to the
>>> sources from the public Release Candidate provided by upstream on April
>> 22 2014.
>>> There were very few changes from this Release Candidate to the
>>> official release.
>>
>> Nice work.
>>
>>> All the Security/Enhancement/Bugfix code comes out of git as the
>>> source rpms for these were never publicly released.
>>
>> Does this mean there is no way to correlate security/bugfix updates from
>> Red Hat with the changes in git, and therefore no way to know how far SL is
>> diverging from RHEL over time?
>>
>> Is the git tree entirely RHEL + released updates, or are unreleased CentOS
>> changes mixed in as well?
>>
>> Presumably, anyone with a RHEL subscription (and the right tools) could
>> compare the git repository against the update SRPMs, at least to tell you
>> whether they are the same. Would that be a violation of the subscription
>> terms, I wonder?
>>
>> Just curious.
>>
>>  - Pat


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