[mdlug] Chaning distros

[Dan Pritts]

It is certainly possible - that's how you get SRPMs in the first
place.  It's just more work, and it's a *lot* of work to do it for an
entire distribution from the original source tarballs.

My point is this: Red Hat is making it pretty easy for the Centos
people to do what they do.  They could make it a bunch harder,
without violating the GPL.

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:27:58AM -0500, Robert Adkins wrote:
> It's been a while since I have fiddled with building from SRPMS or 
> looking into the documentation, so this could be wrong.
> 
> I seem to recall that it's possible to take a straight up source package 
> and make it into a SRPM using the RPM system. I don't remember the 
> commands at the moment and I seem to recall it being a somewhat 
> complicated process to get rolling.
> 
> Rob
> 
>     
> 
> 
> 
> Dan Pritts wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:41:36AM -0800, Michael Rudas (computer) wrote:
> >   
> >> --- Dan Pritts <danno at umich.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> >>> there is one risk - red hat might stop
> >>> providing the full SRPMs required for
> >>> centos to do the rebuild, which would
> >>> make the centos packagers' job harder.
> >>> Red Hat probably won't do this IMO
> >>> but you never know.
> >>>       
> >> The GPL means always having to say, "Here's the
> >> source."
> >>     
> >
> > yes, but it doesn't mean always having to say "here are a bunch of
> > SRPMs that you can just type 'rpmbuild' and have a copy of our OS."
> >
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