[colug-432] Red Hat and CentOS buddy-up

[R P Herrold]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Joshua Kramer wrote:

> Strange... the CentOS mailing list and RedHat's official statements appear
> to differ.

> source rpms on ftp.redhat.com.

Red Hat and Fedora have been building out of VCS's for a while 
now.  SRPMS have been an end product from an 'rpmbuild', and a 
convenient encapsulated form to meet 'source code 
availability' requirements of the GPL and some other licenses

But RPM (the package manager) itself is slated for a 
replacement a few Fedora release cycles out (and yum for the 
same fate).  I would not expect before RHEL 8 timeframe at 
the earliest, for a turn-down of SRPM availability

-- Russ herrold