Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-09 Thread Ralph Angenendt
nate wrote:
 Alford, Seth wrote:
 
  I'm looking for the anaconda source rpm.  Yes, I know, it's
  available from the upstream vendor.
 
 this site seems to have it:
 
 ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/centos/5.3/os/i386/CentOS/anaconda-11.1.2.168-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm

How is that a source rpm?

Ralph


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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-09 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Michael Holmes wrote:
  Coming later. Please let the mirrors handle the load of people updating
  their machines first. When the first wave of updates have gone down, the
  SRPMS will be put onto the mirrors.
 
 Not to be Mr. Goody Two Shoes, but isn't that a GPL violation? Seeing
 as you can make an RPM from an SRPM but not vice versa, and the source
 is what the GPL focuses on.

Is it? What if you had asked for a specific src.rpm and we would have
given you a download location for it?

As said: It is not a perfect solution, but more a pragmatic one.

What probably should be done next time is to at least offer the SRPMS of
modified packages at release time, as you can get the other SRPMS from
somewhere else until the CentOS mirrors have synced up.

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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-09 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
 What probably should be done next time is to at least offer the SRPMS of
 modified packages at release time, as you can get the other SRPMS from
 somewhere else until the CentOS mirrors have synced up.

I have actually plumbed this into the scripts now, so all pkgs with a 
'centos' in there will be already on os/SRPMS/ at release time.

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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-09 Thread Alford, Seth
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:31:37AM -0700, Alford, Seth wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 12:22:05PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
  James Pearson wrote:
   Is there _any_ chance the 5.3 SRPMS could be made available somehow - 
   e.g. on a single server, before they are pushed out to the mirrors?
   
   I would like to have a look at a couple of CentOS modified SRPMS
  
  The src's and debuginfo's are uploading now ( they have been for the 
  last 2 days ) - so should be online in the next day or so.
  
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 Are the source rpm's being sent out to the mirrors such that each
 mirror gets all the source rpm's, and then the next mirror gets
 all the source rpm's?  Or, are some of the source rpm's made
 available, then sent to all the mirrors sites, then more source
 rpm's are made available, until all of them are done?
 
 I'm looking for the anaconda source rpm.  Yes, I know, it's
 available from the upstream vendor.
 
 Thanks,
 
 --Seth

And I see the anaconda source rpm today at, for example,
http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/centos/5.3/os/SRPMS/anaconda-11.1.2.168-1.el5.centos.src.rpm

Thanks.

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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-08 Thread nate
Alford, Seth wrote:

 I'm looking for the anaconda source rpm.  Yes, I know, it's
 available from the upstream vendor.

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/12378998/com/anaconda-11.1.2.168-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm.html

this site seems to have it:

ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/centos/5.3/os/i386/CentOS/anaconda-11.1.2.168-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm

warning: anaconda-11.1.2.168-1.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm: V3 DSA signature:
NOKEY, key ID e8562897
Name: anaconda Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 11.1.2.168Vendor: CentOS
Release : 1.el5.centos  Build Date: Wed 11 Mar 2009
10:38:13 AM PDT
Install Date: (not installed)   Build Host: chamkaur.karan.org
Group   : Applications/System   Source RPM:
anaconda-11.1.2.168-1.el5.centos.src.rpm


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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-08 Thread Michael Holmes
2009/4/1 Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.de:
 Steve Snyder wrote:
 It seems that the mirrors are now all sync'd with the binary RPMs, but
 where are the source packages?

 The source RPMs are available for the few packages updated since the
 upstream 5.3 release, but the SRPMS for the release itself are
 missing.

 Coming later. Please let the mirrors handle the load of people updating
 their machines first. When the first wave of updates have gone down, the
 SRPMS will be put onto the mirrors.

 Regards,

 Ralph

Not to be Mr. Goody Two Shoes, but isn't that a GPL violation? Seeing
as you can make an RPM from an SRPM but not vice versa, and the source
is what the GPL focuses on.
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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-08 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Michael Holmes
holmesm...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Not to be Mr. Goody Two Shoes, but isn't that a GPL violation? Seeing
 as you can make an RPM from an SRPM but not vice versa, and the source
 is what the GPL focuses on.


Please read the first few messages in the beginning of this thread,
that already cover this.

And obviously a project as big as CentOS has dealt with the GPL
before, and they know what they are doing.  This is a matter of
pragmatism and obviously not willful disobedience by the CentOS
project.  And we're only talking like maybe week or so here.
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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-08 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:32:36 +0100
Michael Holmes wrote:

 Not to be Mr. Goody Two Shoes, but isn't that a GPL violation? Seeing
 as you can make an RPM from an SRPM but not vice versa, and the source
 is what the GPL focuses on.

I'm not any kind of a legal expert, but I suspect that the concept of
reasonable effort comes into play here.

If you requested GPL source for something by snailmail letter it's not a GPL
violation if it takes the post office a few days to deliver the letter and the
guy on the other end a little longer to package and ship a CD or tape to you.

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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-06 Thread James Pearson
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
 Coming later. Please let the mirrors handle the load of people updating
 their machines first. When the first wave of updates have gone down, the
 SRPMS will be put onto the mirrors.

Is there _any_ chance the 5.3 SRPMS could be made available somehow - 
e.g. on a single server, before they are pushed out to the mirrors?

I would like to have a look at a couple of CentOS modified SRPMS

Thanks

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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
James Pearson wrote:
 Ralph Angenendt wrote:
 
 The source RPMs are available for the few packages updated since the 
 upstream 5.3 release, but the SRPMS for the release itself are 
 missing.

I'm rather sure that I didn't write that.

Ralph


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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
James Pearson wrote:
 Is there _any_ chance the 5.3 SRPMS could be made available somehow - 
 e.g. on a single server, before they are pushed out to the mirrors?
 
 I would like to have a look at a couple of CentOS modified SRPMS

The src's and debuginfo's are uploading now ( they have been for the 
last 2 days ) - so should be online in the next day or so.

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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-06 Thread James Pearson
Ralph Angenendt wrote:

The source RPMs are available for the few packages updated since the 
upstream 5.3 release, but the SRPMS for the release itself are 
missing.
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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Steve Snyder wrote:
 It seems that the mirrors are now all sync'd with the binary RPMs, but 
 where are the source packages?
 
 The source RPMs are available for the few packages updated since the 
 upstream 5.3 release, but the SRPMS for the release itself are 
 missing.

Coming later. Please let the mirrors handle the load of people updating
their machines first. When the first wave of updates have gone down, the
SRPMS will be put onto the mirrors.

Regards,

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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread John Doe

From: Steve Snyder swsny...@snydernet.net
It seems that the mirrors are now all sync'd with the binary RPMs, but 
 where are the source packages?

I think I read, a few posts ago, something about source rpms being delayed a 
bit to reduce the traffic...

JD


  

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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread David Hrbáč
Ralph Angenendt napsal(a):
 Coming later. Please let the mirrors handle the load of people updating
 their machines first. When the first wave of updates have gone down, the
 SRPMS will be put onto the mirrors.
 
 Regards,

Ralph,
I don´t like this solution. When things go wrong I want to look at the
source. And as for now there's no reference to look at.
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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread Matthew Hyclak
On 04/01/09 14:45, David Hrb?? enlightened us:
 Ralph Angenendt napsal(a):
  Coming later. Please let the mirrors handle the load of people updating
  their machines first. When the first wave of updates have gone down, the
  SRPMS will be put onto the mirrors.
  
  Regards,
 
 Ralph,
 I don?t like this solution. When things go wrong I want to look at the
 source. And as for now there's no reference to look at.
 David Hrb??

ftp.redhat.com? For 98% of the packages, that should be fine...

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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Matthew Hyclak wrote:
 On 04/01/09 14:45, David Hrb?? enlightened us:
 Ralph Angenendt napsal(a):
 Coming later. Please let the mirrors handle the load of people updating
 their machines first. When the first wave of updates have gone down, the
 SRPMS will be put onto the mirrors.

 I don?t like this solution. When things go wrong I want to look at the
 source. And as for now there's no reference to look at.

David: We don't either. But that really would have swamped the complete
mirror network. 

 ftp.redhat.com? For 98% of the packages, that should be fine...

Yes. That would be the best solution for this at the moment.

Regards,

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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread John Doe

From: David Hrbáč hrbac.c...@seznam.cz
 Ralph Angenendt napsal(a):
  Coming later. Please let the mirrors handle the load of people updating
  their machines first. When the first wave of updates have gone down, the
  SRPMS will be put onto the mirrors.
 Ralph,
 I don´t like this solution. When things go wrong I want to look at the
 source. And as for now there's no reference to look at.
 David Hrbáč

Why don't you just wait until the mirors are fully in sync (srpms included)?
Waiting for a few extra hours should not be that big of a deal...

JD


  

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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread Ned Slider
David Hrbáč wrote:
 Ralph Angenendt napsal(a):
 Coming later. Please let the mirrors handle the load of people updating
 their machines first. When the first wave of updates have gone down, the
 SRPMS will be put onto the mirrors.

 Regards,
 
 Ralph,
 I don´t like this solution. When things go wrong I want to look at the
 source. And as for now there's no reference to look at.
 David Hrbáč
 

David,

Not an ideal solution by any means, but for the moment there is at least 
the upstream sources for the vast majority of packages (as CentOS change 
relatively few).

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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread Ralph Angenendt
John Doe wrote:
 Why don't you just wait until the mirors are fully in sync (srpms included)?
 Waiting for a few extra hours should not be that big of a deal...

Because it will be more than a few extra hours.

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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread John Doe

From: Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.de
 John Doe wrote:
  Why don't you just wait until the mirors are fully in sync (srpms included)?
  Waiting for a few extra hours should not be that big of a deal...
 
 Because it will be more than a few extra hours.

Like... 6 months?
My point was that some people have already been waiting for weeks/months for 
it...
So a few hours/days won't change much.

JD


  

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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread Fabian Arrotin
David Hrbáč wrote:
 Ralph Angenendt napsal(a):
 Coming later. Please let the mirrors handle the load of people updating
 their machines first. When the first wave of updates have gone down, the
 SRPMS will be put onto the mirrors.

 Regards,
 
 Ralph,
 I don´t like this solution. When things go wrong I want to look at the
 source. And as for now there's no reference to look at.
 David Hrbáč
 
 
Right, if you don't like this solution, feel free to take a RHN 
account .. btw you can always fetch Upstream SRPMs , no ?
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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread David Hrbáč
Fabian Arrotin napsal(a):
 Right, if you don't like this solution, feel free to take a RHN 
 account .. btw you can always fetch Upstream SRPMs , no ?

Fabian,
well, I've got feeling that the mantra is get the RH for every point
coming out from the community. What do I have to think about this
release? ISOs are pushed in the wild before the release notes,
translators does not have time enough before the release to prepare
localized RN, SRPM are not included, nor this is mentioned within the RN...
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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread Michael A. Peters
John Doe wrote:
 From: Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.de
 John Doe wrote:
 Why don't you just wait until the mirors are fully in sync (srpms included)?
 Waiting for a few extra hours should not be that big of a deal...
 Because it will be more than a few extra hours.
 
 Like... 6 months?
 My point was that some people have already been waiting for weeks/months for 
 it...
 So a few hours/days won't change much.
 
 JD

IMHO what should have happened is the src be up on CentOS server but not 
sent to the mirrors until the massive bandwidth has died down.

Maybe the mirrors could get an html file pointing to the CentOS 
directory until they get the src.rpm's.

But I'm pretty good at being an armchair quarterback - maybe next release.

An alternative might be to tease the community by syncing the src.rpm's 
a week before the release :D ;)
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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread Michael A. Peters
Fabian Arrotin wrote:
 David Hrbáč wrote:
 Ralph Angenendt napsal(a):
 Coming later. Please let the mirrors handle the load of people updating
 their machines first. When the first wave of updates have gone down, the
 SRPMS will be put onto the mirrors.

 Regards,
 Ralph,
 I don´t like this solution. When things go wrong I want to look at the
 source. And as for now there's no reference to look at.
 David Hrbáč


 Right, if you don't like this solution, feel free to take a RHN 
 account .. btw you can always fetch Upstream SRPMs , no ?

Well, technically the source has to be made available from CentOS to 
anyone they distribute the software to.

However, I don't believe it needs to be made available by http, CentOS 
would probably be in GPL compliance if they distributed it on IBM punch 
cards to those who requested it.
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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread Michael A. Peters
David Hrbáč wrote:
 Fabian Arrotin napsal(a):
 Right, if you don't like this solution, feel free to take a RHN 
 account .. btw you can always fetch Upstream SRPMs , no ?
 
 Fabian,
 well, I've got feeling that the mantra is get the RH for every point
 coming out from the community. What do I have to think about this
 release? ISOs are pushed in the wild before the release notes,

My understanding of what happened with ISO's -

They were kind by seeding a torrent with ~ 95% of the isos - the 
intention being that when official release was made, those who got in on 
the early torrent would only have ~ 5% to fetch.

That kindness was abused when someone found a mirror that opened early 
(mirrors opening early has happened to Fedora and other distros as well, 
it's a mirror admin problem) and seeded the full iso on that torrent 
resulting in people getting the full iso before it was released.
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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread John R Pierce
Michael A. Peters wrote:
 However, I don't believe it needs to be made available by http, CentOS 
 would probably be in GPL compliance if they distributed it on IBM punch 
 cards to those who requested it.
   

FLOPPY DISKS!  FOR  A MEDIA HANDLING FEE of $5/disk!
(thats totally legal per GPL, the recipient is free to redistribute any 
way they wish)


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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread William L. Maltby

On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 11:35 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
 Michael A. Peters wrote:
  However, I don't believe it needs to be made available by http, CentOS 
  would probably be in GPL compliance if they distributed it on IBM punch 
  cards to those who requested it.

 
 FLOPPY DISKS!  FOR  A MEDIA HANDLING FEE of $5/disk!

I have 1 each  360Kb and 1.2MB 5.25 floppy drives and cables for those
who need them! Worked last time I used them (umpteen years ago) and they
are on the floor awaiting shipping instructions. I've also got media for
them, but they may have aged a wee bit.

 (thats totally legal per GPL, the recipient is free to redistribute any 
 way they wish)
 
 
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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread William L. Maltby

On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 11:21 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
 John Doe wrote:
  From: Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.de
  John Doe wrote:
  Why don't you just wait until the mirors are fully in sync (srpms 
  included)?
  Waiting for a few extra hours should not be that big of a deal...
  Because it will be more than a few extra hours.
  
  Like... 6 months?
  My point was that some people have already been waiting for weeks/months 
  for it...
  So a few hours/days won't change much.
  
  JD
 
 IMHO what should have happened is the src be up on CentOS server but not 
 sent to the mirrors until the massive bandwidth has died down.

IMO, David - as with any user - has his desires. And as with any
project, reasonable management of available resources is occasionally
required.

The project did what it needs to do, suggestions have been made as to
getting around the (relatively small) delay.

No more needs be said except that we all understand the user's need for
timely source and the users all understand the projects need to consider
things outside the user's realm of concern.

Positive suggestions about how to reconcile those conflicts, sans
carping about one's own needs/desires, would probably be welcome by the
project. This is all business as usual for any project such as this.

 
 snip

For all the CentOS folks, project members and users alike, one big
BOOYAH! And a thinks for the effort.

IMO
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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Michael A. Peters wrote:
 Well, technically the source has to be made available from CentOS to 
 anyone they distribute the software to.
 
 However, I don't believe it needs to be made available by http, CentOS 
 would probably be in GPL compliance if they distributed it on IBM punch 
 cards to those who requested it.

No. We have to distribute it the same way we distribute the binaries, so David
is correct. And yes, this was a release with many hiccups, he's correct there,
too. And I can understand him, I probably would feel the same.

But as it stands we're going to release the SRPMS a bit later than the
binaries, and we will try to make the next release smoother.

Ralph

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Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-01 Thread Ralph Angenendt
John R Pierce wrote:
 FLOPPY DISKS!  FOR  A MEDIA HANDLING FEE of $5/disk!
 (thats totally legal per GPL, the recipient is free to redistribute any 
 way they wish)

The recipient - yes. The distributor - no. 

Ralph

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