Packages without source?

[Bill Davidsen]

Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Why are there packages for which there are no corresponding source? 
>> Given the number of packages which are not part of Fedora because they 
>> are not licensed in open enough fashion, I would expect that all of 
>> the packages which are available as binary are also available as source.
>>
>> My latest run-in with this is xawtv, which I believe I got from 
>> rawhide, version "xawtv.i386 3.95-8.fc9" for which I find no source. 
>> It appears 
> 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/xawtv/3.95/8.fc9/src/xawtv-3.95-8.fc9.src.rpm 
> 
> 
> Using "yumdownloader --source xawtv" should also retrieve the SRPM for you.
> 
> Where were you looking for it?
> 
yum --enablerepo=*source list xawtv*

If source for updates aren't in updates-source it's why have it? I do try to use 
mirrors before beating on koji, but thanks for the pointer.

>  > to be compiled in some "safe" configuration, with no mmx, sse, etc,
>  > and is dog slow. I attempted to compile the source from the original
>  > site, but that will not compile with the current FC9 or 10 gcc.
> 
> It may be worth filing a bug but there could be sound reasons why this 
> was chosen by the maintainer. I know nothing about xawtv so I can't 
> really comment on that.
> 
I have no complaint with it being built to work on virtually any machine, but 
all my machines are P4 or better and can be build with -march=i686 at least, all 
the multicore have advances sse levels as well.

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