[fab] FSF Requirements for srpm provisions
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Thu Nov 2 16:32:37 UTC 2006
Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said:
> This has come up on fedora-devel-list. If somebody happens to spin a compose
> of Fedora rpms for say ia64, no modifications, no alterations, same exact
> binaries that were created at the same time the i386/x86_64/ppc ones were, do
> they have an obligation to host all the srpms again where they provide the
> spun release, or can they refer back to the mirror system of srpms?
I'd prefer they have their own SRPMS, especially if they had to pull
anything from -devel (which will get obsoleted from the download
site soon.)
Now, if they just want one big source ISO, that's fine.
Similarly, something like Unity will probably want a source mirror b/c
of obsoleted updates.
Bill
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