Messages in this thread | | | From | "jdow" <> | Subject | Re: Red Hat ES4 GPL Issues? | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:29:03 -0800 |
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From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>
> Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >>On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 11:15 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: >> >> >>>Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>>But anyway, what has this thread to do with the kernel? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>since when does something need to be on-topic for Jeff Merkey to post to >>>>lkml ? ;-) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>I got the RPM's and located them from an earlier responder to the post. >>>It was just disturbing >>>that RedHat does ont include the sources when you install from binary -- >>>which they always have >>>before. >>> >>> >>> >> >>you forgot to download the cd images labeled "source". >>What's the problem??? >> >> > I did not download them, procuement here did and they did not grab the > SRPMS iso's
So they screwed up. That is not RedHat's fault. This is the way they have always made a distribution since source and binary outgrew a single disk. Binary's on one disk and Sources on another. Eventually it became binaries on several disks and sources on several other disks.
>>>I am glad Red Hat is still distributing the code, but I am disappointed >>>they are no longer >>>including it in the base RPM install. >>> >>> >> >>oh you don't mean the src.rpm but the full kernel source code installed? >>That's explained in the release notes; it's 2 shell commands to create >>it, and it's in a way silly to make an exception for the kernel here >>compared to all other software. And CD real estate on the binary cd's is >>scarse as well. >> >> >> >> >> > I know but this deviates from how they did it in the past. No worry, > sooner or later Linux will get so > large in these distros, you will need a DVD to hold all of it, so I can > understand if space was at a premium > on those CD iso images.
When's the last time you did a RedHat install?
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