Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932097AbWBWRtl (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:49:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932100AbWBWRtl (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:49:41 -0500 Received: from master.soleranetworks.com ([67.137.28.188]:39313 "EHLO master.soleranetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932097AbWBWRtl (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:49:41 -0500 Message-ID: <43FE02DA.90003@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:45:46 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Nick Warne , Chris Adams , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Red Hat ES4 GPL Issues? References: <43FCFDC6.9090109@soleranetworks.com> <20060223145920.GA1311407@hiwaay.net> <7c3341450602230831m1265e49g@mail.gmail.com> <1140713030.4672.75.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <43FDFBDE.2040304@wolfmountaingroup.com> <1140716828.4672.80.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1140716828.4672.80.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1703 Lines: 70 Arjan van de Ven wrote: >On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 11:15 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > >>Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> >> >> >>>>But anyway, what has this thread to do with the kernel? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>since when does something need to be on-topic for Jeff Merkey to post to >>>lkml ? ;-) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>I got the RPM's and located them from an earlier responder to the post. >>It was just disturbing >>that RedHat does ont include the sources when you install from binary -- >>which they always have >>before. >> >> >> > >you forgot to download the cd images labeled "source". >What's the problem??? > > I did not download them, procuement here did and they did not grab the SRPMS iso's > > >>I am glad Red Hat is still distributing the code, but I am disappointed >>they are no longer >>including it in the base RPM install. >> >> > >oh you don't mean the src.rpm but the full kernel source code installed? >That's explained in the release notes; it's 2 shell commands to create >it, and it's in a way silly to make an exception for the kernel here >compared to all other software. And CD real estate on the binary cd's is >scarse as well. > > > > > I know but this deviates from how they did it in the past. No worry, sooner or later Linux will get so large in these distros, you will need a DVD to hold all of it, so I can understand if space was at a premium on those CD iso images. :-) Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/