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Re: [SLE] Source RPMs not in 10.0 Retail DVD?
- From: roach <robert_spencer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:03:55 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200511280353.11244.robert_spencer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sunday 27 November 2005 20:35, Joachim Schrod wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for the source RPMs on my retail 10.0 DVD, and didn't find
> them. I also checked CD1 and CD5, no sources either.
It was on the second DVD. Which has since been dropped.
> The COPYRIGHT file tells that ``source code is available for download on
> ftp://ftp.suse.com. For others, it is shipped directly on the CDs or
> DVDs.'' This doesn't seem to be true.
That file is out of date.
> Is it really true that sources are only available from the Internet servers
> and are not on the product media that I bought?
<snip>
Yes.
> Btw, no need to point out the mirrors of ftp.opensuse.org/distribution/...
> to me. I know that I can get the package sources as single src.rpms from
> there. But I would have expected them to be part of the sold package, as it
> was in all previous SUSE versions. (Another CD or DVD shouldn't be the
> issue, should it?) So I'm wondering if I have overseen something in my
> boxed SUSE version.
This has just recently been discussed - there are a lot of very unhappy
people. :-(
I won't be buying any more boxed sets.
--
Robert "roach" Spencer
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for the source RPMs on my retail 10.0 DVD, and didn't find
> them. I also checked CD1 and CD5, no sources either.
It was on the second DVD. Which has since been dropped.
> The COPYRIGHT file tells that ``source code is available for download on
> ftp://ftp.suse.com. For others, it is shipped directly on the CDs or
> DVDs.'' This doesn't seem to be true.
That file is out of date.
> Is it really true that sources are only available from the Internet servers
> and are not on the product media that I bought?
<snip>
Yes.
> Btw, no need to point out the mirrors of ftp.opensuse.org/distribution/...
> to me. I know that I can get the package sources as single src.rpms from
> there. But I would have expected them to be part of the sold package, as it
> was in all previous SUSE versions. (Another CD or DVD shouldn't be the
> issue, should it?) So I'm wondering if I have overseen something in my
> boxed SUSE version.
This has just recently been discussed - there are a lot of very unhappy
people. :-(
I won't be buying any more boxed sets.
--
Robert "roach" Spencer
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa
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