Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 167763
Apparently missing 286 SRPMS from RHEL2.1 AS update 5 (ia64)
Last modified: 2007-04-18 13:31:15 EDT
Description of problem: There are 286 missing source packages from the 4-CD set posted on RHN for RHEL2.1 update 5 AS for ia64. Forensics leads me to believe that RHEL2.1u5 was actually a 5-CD (ISO) release, but only 4 ISO images are posted. This defect is *similar to* but not identical to bug 139515 -- given: * the similarity in sizes of discs 1-4 of update 5 and update 6 * the difference in sizes of discs 1-4 of update 4 and update 5 one is led to believe there's an unposted 'disc5' for RHEL2.1u5 AS ia64. Can that please be posted ASAP? P.S. Jay Turner, this is the issue I was trying to describe in the voice-mail message I left you on Wednesday, 07-Sep-2005.
More forensics that support my theory of 'an unposted 5th ISO image". RHEL2.1 *for i386* has 5 ISO images for update 5 and 6 and 4 ISO images for updates 4 and earlier.
I'm not sure we're going to spend too many resources fixing this. U5 is no longer supported, all of the SRPMS are present in RHN as well as ftp.redhat.com and the ISOs for U6 are complete. Is HP now saying that the ISOs need to be fixed for U5 and if so, why?
HP is certainly not claiming the ISO images need to be fixed. The intent of this defect report is to point out an error and to see if an easy fix exists for it (e.g., if the ISO image is lying around a server somewhere, it's in everyone's best interest to have it posted to the RHN downloads page for RHEL2.1-ia64). It's a GPL issue, that's all.
As an FYI, all but 1 of the SRPMS do exist in some previous version (or same version for i386) except "redhat-release-as-2.1AS-117.src.rpm".
It's not a GPL issue because the source packages are available via RHN as well as our ftp site. The only thing missing is an ISO of those SRPMS for an older release which is no longer supported.