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Subject: Re: Red Hat ES4 GPL Issues?
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:29:03 -0800
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From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>

> 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

So they screwed up. That is not RedHat's fault. This is the way they
have always made a distribution since source and binary outgrew a single
disk. Binary's on one disk and Sources on another. Eventually it became
binaries on several disks and sources on several other disks.

>>>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.

When's the last time you did a RedHat install?

{^_^}   Joanne
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