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Peter Kahn
Asked: 2021-03-02 08:48:59 +0800 CST

Why does elrepo have nosrc instead of src packages for kernel-lt?

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I see that elrepo only provides nosrc and not src packages for their kernel-lt but I don't understand their rational and nor have I been able to find it by searching.

Does anyone know the reason and where to look for documentation about it?

centos7

1 Answers

  1. According to the elrepo community this is done to avoid needless duplication

    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

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