[CentOS-devel] Centos Stream - src.rpms?

Am 12.12.20 um 10:39 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:39 AM Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel
> <centos-devel at centos.org> wrote:
>>
>> Am 11.12.20 um 15:07 schrieb Antal Nemeš:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Will src.rpm packages be made available for Stream repositories?
>>>
>>> Currently, I see only empty subdirs for 8-stream at https://vault.centos.org/centos/8-stream/
>>>
>>
>> I haven't checked but take a look at git.centos.org (c8s tag) ...
> 
> There is *always* a potential mismatch between a git repo and the
> source actually used for building an RPM. SRPM's also have a gpg
> signature, git repos do not, and establishing provenance can be
> adventuresome. So can setting up the variety of git epos, along with
> the source tarballs, to assemble in a local compilation environment
> for local rpmbuild or mock.
> 
> So can stunning foolishness like the Fedora SRPM for chromium, which
> includes specific source files in the SRPM only if compiled on a
> specific operating system. I just noticed trying to backport Chromium
> 87 to CentOS 7.
> 

Sure, I would also like to see such SRPMs but as you see it for C8, 
there are no SRPMs anymore on RedHat's ftp/http servers, the sources
are consolidated in git now. Maybe someone from RH could highlight
this aspect (C8S) here a bit more ...

--
Leon