Hi David,



Thank you for that. A valuable piece of information for the future.



Regards

Andreas Mock





> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

> Von: David Sommerseth [mailto:[log in to unmask]]

> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. September 2014 16:52

> An: Andreas Mock; Patrick J. LoPresti; Pat Riehecky

> Cc: [log in to unmask]

> Betreff: Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Questions about SL 7.0

> 

> 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

> 

> 

> --

> kind regards,

> 

> David Sommerseth

> 

> 

> 

> >> 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

> 

> 

> --

> kind regards,

> 

> David Sommerseth