On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 23:42:41 +0100 Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net> wrote: > Hi > > Is there any ETA for the SRPM's from the base tree of 5.6? I need to > get my hands on the src for the centos-release package as i have to > rebuilt it to prevent the repo definitions from being included. > > I see the src's for the updates RPM's but not the base. > I'm hazarding a guess here - that the os/{i386,x86_64}/CentOS/*.rpm's that have 'centos' in the name have had changes made for CentOS. The others have not and the sources are available from upstream at eg http://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/ Can anyone please confirm/deny that? I looked at a couple of examples including eg httpd - rpm -qpi 5.6/os/x86_64/CentOS/rpm-4.4.2.3-22.el5.x86_64.rpm Name : rpm Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 4.4.2.3 Vendor: CentOS Release : 22.el5 Build Date: Sun Mar 6 13:40:33 2011 Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: builder10.centos.org Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: rpm-4.4.2.3-22.el5.src.rpm Size : 3754140 License: GPLv2+ Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue Mar 22 09:37:08 2011, Key ID a8a447dce8562897 URL : http://www.rpm.org/ Summary : The RPM package management system ... ... so it's built from rpm-4.4.2.3-22.el5.src.rpm ... the same _name_ as the upstream vendor's source. Oddly, the 5.5 binary carries 'centos' in it's release field: 5.5/os/x86_64/CentOS/httpd-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm ... so the good devs had to make changes there, yet not for 5.6!!!??? Cheers Bob -- Bob Hepple <bhepple at promptu.com> ph: 07-5584-5908 Fx: 07-5575-9550