On 09/03/2009 12:29 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede(a)hhs.nl) said:
>>> It really is like having to support gentoo, versus having to support a
>>> distro using pre build packages. And I would really like to move to the
having to
>>> support a pre-build package model for the initrd.
>>
>> The problem is this:
>>
>> The kernel binary RPM contains this pre-built initrd. The kernel source
>> RPM does not contain the sources necessary to make this pre-built initrd.
>> This makes me rather uncomfortable from a Licensing perspective.
>
> True, but we do provide SRPMS with the sources, if we include a list of
> the SRPMS with the sources, with full NEVR in the kernel rpm as doc,
> wouldn't that be sufficient?
Not really. In the case of initrd-built-with-kernel, it could be packages
in the buildroot that never leave koji for release/updates, and are then
garbage collected.
There's a related problem here - glibc32 .
--
Peter
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to
change that here and there.
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