> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen Childs
> Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
> Ah the good old "where are the source RPMs question"! It's
> been a while since someone asked it.
>
I still think it's a qood question - querying the binary RPMs shows
the name of the src.rpm they were built from, an it is virtually
impossible to build an RPM using anything like the standard tools
without also generating a src.rpm, so someone's got these packages.
> > I don't think there are any source rpms ... anyway your chance of
> > building glite from source wouldn't be high! The source
> > itself is in the glite cvs, although finding things is not that
easy:
> >
> > http://jra1mw.cvs.cern.ch:8180/cgi-bin/jra1mw.cgi/
>
> Also try ETICS:
> http://eticssoft.web.cern.ch/eticssoft/repository/org.glite/
>
> You may get lucky and find sources for some packages there,
> but I'm not sure if they will correspond with released versions.
>
I shall indeed have a look, but does anyone know /why/ there aren't
source packages published in the normal way? It does just seem that
someone's being awkward, and we really shouldn't have to put up with
that sort of behaviour. Unless there's a really convincing technical
reason for this....
Ewan
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