Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (60 mails)

[Rob OpenSuSE <rob.opensuse.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/12/4 Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>:

> We have already problems finding mirrors to mirror the source rpms, double the
> content is not really helping here.
>
> Also, you typically only need the sources of some packages, where you want to
> have a look and not all of them. It would be just a waste of resources IMHO.
>
> And in the end, I consider src.rpms anyway as resource waste. It is way more
> easy to stay update 2 date with osc. You can check out the source where you
> are interessted in with it (or also all from a project), you can read the
> history, you can easily keep up 2 date and you can even fix something via
> that. You have also one interface to get all different versions of sources
> between the distro versions, the updates and user variations.
>
> All of that is not doable via offering source rpms, so, maybe we can get rid
> of src rpms at all later ...

All true, but it doesn't let the user say they actually have all the
source, that they use.

Perhaps a script to ensure up to date source has been downloaded for
every installed package, would meet the user requirements and those of
binary ISO distributors?
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