Hi Dave,
Do you mean all of the newer source tarballs will be on github permanently
in the future?
Yes, that's correct.
If no I'd suggeust leaving links for some critical releases
at least, since sometimes people need a certain release (e.g. applying
patch on that release).
Thanks,
Paul
2014-04-24 23:10 GMT+08:00 Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com>:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need to download an old crash source tarball, e.g. 7.0.1, but I am just
> > able to find 7.0.6 (from
http://people.redhat.com/anderson/ ) and 7.0.5
> and
> > 7.0.4 (from
https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/releases ), but I
> found
> > there is a src.rpm on
rpmfinder.net
> >
> > crash-7.0.1-2.fc20.src.html Kernel analysis utility for live systems,
> > netdump, diskdump, kdump, LKCD or mcore dumpfiles Fedora Secondary
> Rawhide
> > Sources crash-7.0.1-2.fc20.src.rpm
> > Anyone knows whether the code in
rpmfiner.net is exactly same as the one
> > which was on
http://people.redhat.com/anderson/ . Is there any place
> which
> > have those old source tarballs or rpms?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paul
>
> The crash sources found on
>
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=307
> take the upstream tarball from
http://people.redhat.com/anderson, and may
> *possibly*
> apply additional patches. However, in the case of crash-7.0.1-2.fc20, no
> additional
> patches were applied to the upstream version.
>
> Until I recently started the github repository, old upstream tarballs/rpms
> were not
> saved anywhere except for those found in the Fedora repository. And the
> Fedora releases
> do not necessarily track all upstream releases. If you really need a
> particular version,
> I can reproduce it from the in-house CVS repository.
>
> Dave
>
>
>