[WBEL-users] Preparing Security Updates

[Milan Keršláger]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 05:30:47PM -0500, John Morris wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Milan [iso-8859-2] Ker?láger wrote:
> 
> > I really don't underestand why they are on CD but in another directory.
> > Maybe to make a pain to users because there is no reason to do this as
> > another non-RH-published packages are in the tree (*devel* packages,
> > MySQL, PostgreSQL server and so on...).
> 
> Not actually having seen a shipping copy of RHEL3 when putting the first 
> WBEL set together the only rules I could use were the following:
> 
> The SRPMS on ftp.redhat.com are considered canon.  (up2date and yum being 
> the exceptions)

As I told - this is only pain and inconsitence because there is no MySQL
in RH's SRPMS for example. There is *no* real reason.

> Anything which issued from those packages was included in WBEL.  RedHat
> themselves omitted some of the -devel packages but a) I had no way to know
> which ones and b) I thought that was dumb, especially for a rebuild
> intended for Open Source/Free Software types instead of Support Contract
> Security Blanket types.  FOSS types type "configure ; make install"  
> without even thinking about it.
> 
> Anything needed to build the official packages are lostRPMS and lostSRPMS.  
> Those packages are only included to allow rebuilding with the same
> versions used in my rebuild.  They should really only be used in that
> context since none of the completed binaries need any of them and most are
> deprecated.  But I know I use lynx on a regular basis.

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                        Milan Kerslager
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