Source RPMs not in 10.0 Retail DVD?
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. 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. Is it really true that sources are only available from the Internet servers and are not on the product media that I bought? (I'm on a metered Internet connection, downloading the 4.4 GB SRC DVD that I have seen costs me *more* money than the box costed.) 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. Cheers, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany
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That file is out of date.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 Robert, (from a former Maritzburger '79) On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 03:53 +0200, roach wrote:
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.
Is that why there is only one version in stead of the previous Professional and Standard versions? Are there some ISO's that can be downloaded for the Boxed versions sources?
-- Robert "roach" Spencer Pietermaritzburg South Africa
:-) Al (Allemande) EU
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