----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Christensen" <eric christensenplace us> To: "For participants of the Documentation Project" <fedora-docs-list redhat com>
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 1:50 PM Subject: Re: New Project: HOWTO Freely Obtain Our Source
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:53, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel infinity-ltd com> wrote:I guess I don't see the problem - the source RPMs are normally available from the same mirrors as the binary RPMs. It is just a matter of enabling the source repo (It is in the config, just disabled.) and selecting the source RPM you want. This way, you get the "virgin source" plus the patches that Fedora is using. The .spec file normally has a pointer to the upstream web site as well, just in case it isn't in the source package.And that is one way of obtaining a version of the source. But how did you know you could get the source from the repos? Is that were ALL the source files?
While the repo is an obvious answer, it is really only interesting to Fedorans. Sources in the repos are wrapped up in these mysterious "rpm" files. Yeah, if you have any Linux you can use file-roller, but what if you are coming from Windows? Those things might as well be encrypted.
Of course, lots of stuff is in git, and you can look freely with just a web browser. But is everything? Other stuff is in CVS. How do you know?
--McD
It has been a long time, but I sort of remember coming across documentation covering this. (It may have been RedHat documentation from before Fedora...) MikeEric -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list redhat com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list