[CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

Michael Holmes holmesmich at googlemail.com
Wed Apr 8 20:32:36 UTC 2009


2009/4/1 Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de>:
> Steve Snyder wrote:
>> It seems that the mirrors are now all sync'd with the binary RPMs, but
>> where are the source packages?
>>
>> The source RPMs are available for the few packages updated since the
>> upstream 5.3 release, but the SRPMS for the release itself are
>> missing.
>
> Coming later. Please let the mirrors handle the load of people updating
> their machines first. When the first wave of updates have gone down, the
> SRPMS will be put onto the mirrors.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ralph

Not to be Mr. Goody Two Shoes, but isn't that a GPL violation? Seeing
as you can make an RPM from an SRPM but not vice versa, and the source
is what the GPL focuses on.



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