CentOS - Mar 2005 - When will the source RPMs for CentOS 4.0 be released?

Is there any estimate for when the source RPMs for CentOS 4.0 will be
released? Looking on the mirrors there are only a handful of packages
currently in 4.0/os/SRPMS. Are there any plans to produce ISO images of
the source RPMs, as was done for the CentOS 3.4 release?

Thanks,
David Mellor.

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 01:24 -0800, David J. Mellor
wrote:
> Is there any estimate for when the source RPMs for CentOS 4.0 will be
> released? Looking on the mirrors there are only a handful of packages
> currently in 4.0/os/SRPMS. Are there any plans to produce ISO images of
> the source RPMs, as was done for the CentOS 3.4 release?
>
> Thanks,
> David Mellor.
>
David,

The SourceRPMS will be a combined group for x86, ia64, ppc, and x86_64.
No need to release 4 separate media sets since the same SRPMS are used
for each distro for 99.9% for the packages.  Combining gives the user
more Bittorrent seeds for the content and takes up much less diskspace.

We are putting the finishing touches on the SRPMS as we work on x86_64,
in case any other SRPMS need changing to build that final release of
that product.

Expect a full DVD (and cd set) for SRPMS with (or very soon after) the
x86_64 release.

BTW ... all the files we changed are in the SRPMS now ... all the other
source files are the ones from the upstream vendor ... and are available
here:
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/

or here:
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/4AS/en/os/SRPMS/

--
Johnny Hughes
<http://www.HughesJR.com/>
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On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 03:16, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> The SourceRPMS will be a combined group for x86, ia64, ppc, and x86_64.
> No need to release 4 separate media sets since the same SRPMS are used
> for each distro for 99.9% for the packages.  Combining gives the user
> more Bittorrent seeds for the content and takes up much less diskspace.
>
> We are putting the finishing touches on the SRPMS as we work on x86_64,
> in case any other SRPMS need changing to build that final release of
> that product.
>
> Expect a full DVD (and cd set) for SRPMS with (or very soon after) the
> x86_64 release.
Excellent news!
> BTW ... all the files we changed are in the SRPMS now ... all the other
> source files are the ones from the upstream vendor ... and are available
> here:
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/
>
> or here:
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/4AS/en/os/SRPMS/
I guessed that this was probably the case, but since I had not seen any
official announcement I wanted to make sure.

Thanks to you and the rest of the people working on CentOS. I really
appreciate all of the effort that you have put into releasing and
updating CentOS.

Regards,
David Mellor.