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The RPM SPEC file in that repo will have a pointer to the actual upstream sources for the package. This is a typical scenario -- they are not re-hosting all of
by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
The RPM SPEC file in that repo will have a pointer to the actual upstream sources for the package. This is a typical scenario -- they are not re-hosting all of the sources to build a Linux distro, just the build steps needed to pull, patch, and build upstream sources.
- em500 6y agoSo where do I actually get this upstream (RHEL8) source of say dracut? Because I was reacting to the comment "Red Hat publishes it's sources on https://git.centos.org https://git.centos.org. Those are then used to build CentOS Linux packages."
- tuldia 6y agoSeems that dracut upstream is hosted at kernel.org. This is the regex used in the watch file for Debian to fetch new upstream tarballs: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut-([\d]+)\.(?:tar\.xz|tar\.bz2|tar\.gz) http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut-([\...
- quicklyfrozen 6y agorpmbuild will download the sources listed in the spec file, apply the patches, and execute the build instructions to produce RPM and SRPM packages. The SRPM will contain the "as built" source tree. For dracut, the spec file defines the source as http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut-049.tar.xz http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut-049...