[CentOS-devel] srpms for RHEL 7

Wed Jun 11 01:49:57 UTC 2014
Carl Trieloff <cctrieloff at redhat.com>

On 06/10/2014 06:58 PM, Connie Sieh wrote:
> In the expected place for srpms for RHEL7 there is a README
>
> ftp.redhat.org:/redhat/linux/enterprise/7Server/en/os/README
>
> It's contents are
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Current sources for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 have been moved to the 
> following
> location:
>
> https://git.centos.org/project/rpms
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Who/what is populating this area?
>
> How are updates to packages handled?  Do they go straight to 
> https://git.centos.org/project/rpms/ as the updates are published by 
> RedHat?
>
> Does CentOS modify any of these packages?
>
> Since it is implied that this "represents" the "srpm" for a given RHEL 
> package (given the above README from ftp.redhat.com) how do I know it has 
> not been tampered with?
>
>
If you look at the GIT activity log it is pretty easy to see how updates
are coming to GIT by looking at the 0-day pushes.

Carl.