[elrepo-devel] What's the reason for nosrc SRPMs for kernel-lt 4.4.236-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64

[Akemi Yagi]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:30 AM Manuel Wolfshant
<wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
>
> On 3/1/21 7:58 PM, Peter Kahn via elrepo-devel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can someone tell me why  kernel-lt 4.4.236-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 has a
> > nosrc package instead of a SRPM?  I thought these normally were used
> > with 3rdparty vendor restrictions forced the issue and I assumed that
> > the kernel-lt would be open source under a GPL license.
> >
> > Please let me know what's driving this choice.
>
>
> if I were to guess I'd say mere size and the fact that the original is
> available in any kernel mirror. there is no benefit in duplicating that
> on the ElRepo's mirrors.

To expand on what wolfy said, what is not included in our "nosrc" SRPM
is the original linux code. In your case,

http://mirrors.coreix.net/elrepo-archive-archive/kernel/el7/SRPMS/kernel-lt-4.4.236-1.el7.elrepo.nosrc.rpm

and

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.4.236.tar.xz

together will create a full source SRPM.

Akemi