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They did something similar with the Kernel in 2011. It's not an entirely new strategy. They stopped publishing the git tree or separate patches for the RHEL ke
by lathiat 3y ago
They did something similar with the Kernel in 2011. It's not an entirely new strategy.
They stopped publishing the git tree or separate patches for the RHEL kernel and only published the tarball with no version control. At the time, Oracle started a project to reverse engineer it back into a set of unique patchsets called "RedPatch". Was kindof wild.
Not sure how long it lasted. It doesn't seem live now, though.
https://www.theregister.com/2011/03/04/red_hat_twarts_oracle_and_novell_with_change_to_source_code_packaging/ https://www.theregister.com/2011/03/04/red_hat_twarts_oracle...
https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/12/oracle_launches_redpatch_repository/ https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/12/oracle_launches_redpa...
- worthless-trash 3y agoCentos streams made the kernel source available in git.
- rincebrain 3y agoThe source was always available; the difference was that RH stopped breaking out their enormous delta from the vanilla tree into itemized patches. And as far as I can tell, that's still [1] just one giant patch wad for every update. [1] - https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/kernel/-/commits/c9s/ https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/kernel/-/commit...