Re: no src.rpm on openafs site for version 1.8.5 and 1.6.24...

Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.openafs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 10:02:33PM +0100, Giovanni Bracco wrote:
> I have seen that the src.rpm are not available on the openafs site for 
> the last versions of the package.
> 
> The available ones stop at:
> openafs-1.6.23-1.src.rpm
> openafs-1.8.4-1.src.rpm
> https://www.openafs.org/frameless/release/openafs-1.6.23.html
> https://www.openafs.org/frameless/release/openafs-1.8.4.html
> 
> Will the last versions be available in the future?

It is not seen as a key part of a release, and is made available
when the person generating the release decides to make one.  That said,
there's absolutely nothing sacred about the src.rpm alongside the tarballs;
it is easy to regenerate from scratch: please see
https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2018-October/042567.html

-Ben
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