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0017951CentOS-8generalpublic2020-12-16 13:302021-05-04 16:19
Reportercnd Assigned To 
PriorityhighSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Product Version8.3.2011 
Summary0017951: Missing source code for CentOS 8-stream
DescriptionSource code is an IMPORTANT requirement for publishers of GPL and similar-licensed products. It is also a binding legal responsibility...

Full details are here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/624738/what-is-the-correct-way-to-enable-source-downloads-in-centos-8-stream

I tried to do this:-

yumdownloader --source sendmail
But hit this problem:-

Last metadata expiration check: 0:08:48 ago on Wed 16 Dec 2020 10:34:00 AM GMT.
No package sendmail-8.15.2-34.el8.src available.
Exiting due to strict setting.
Error: No package sendmail-8.15.2-34.el8.src available.
So I made sure epel etc is installed, and I enabled all things in /etc/yum.repos.d - but there's no existing source info.

The CensOS doc unhelpfully says this:-

Source RPMs will also be published once the release is done, in the usual location at http://vault.centos.org/centos/8/

From a CentOS machine you can easily retrieve sources using the yumdownloader --source <packagename> command.

Now; the stream release is not /8/ in "CentOS-Stream-AppStream.repo" - it is actually /8-stream/ - and sure enough, I can find my sendmail binary in http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/sendmail-8.15.2-34.el8.x86_64.rpm - as you can tell from cd /etc/dnf/vars;cat `grep . *` which reveals their variables thus: contentdir:centos infra:stock stream:8-stream (the CentOS-Stream-AppStream.repo base URL is http://mirror.centos.org/$contentdir/$stream/AppStream/$basearch/os/ )

HOWEVER...

https://vault.centos.org/centos/8-stream/ contains only empty folders - no repodata or source files, and the /8/ tree does not contain the stream source ... grrr.

I created the below to enable all the /8/ Source files, but sendmail-8.15.2-34.el8.src.rpm is not one of them :-(

cat CentOS-Stream-Source.repo


[baseos-source]
name=CentOS Stream $releasever - BaseOS - Source
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/
baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/BaseOS/Source
# /usr/libexec/platform-python -c 'import dnf, json; db = dnf.dnf.Base(); print(json.dumps(db.conf.substitutions, indent=2))' => { "arch": "x86_64", "basearch": "x86_64", "releasever": "8" }
# See also: cd /etc/dnf/vars;grep . * => contentdir:centos infra:stock stream:8-stream
#metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8
gpgcheck=1

[appstream-source]
name=CentOS Stream $releasever - AppStream - Source
baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/AppStream/Source
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8
gpgcheck=1

[highavailability-source]
name=CentOS Stream $releasever - HighAvailability - Source
baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/HighAvailability/Source
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8
gpgcheck=1

[powertools-source]
name=CentOS Stream $releasever - PowerTools - Source
baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/PowerTools/Source
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8
gpgcheck=1

[centosplus-source]
name=CentOS Stream $releasever - centosplus - Source
baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/centosplus/Source
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8
gpgcheck=1

[extras-source]
name=CentOS Stream $releasever - extras - Source
baseurl=https://vault.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/extras/Source
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8
gpgcheck=1



Steps To Reproduce1. Read the manual, carefully observing the word "easily" in the following sentence:-

   From a CentOS machine you can easily retrieve sources using the yumdownloader --source <packagename> command.

2. Follow the above instruction (fails):-

  yumdownloader --source sendmail

3. Browse https://vault.centos.org/centos/8-stream/

4. Observe an empty folder structure with no source code at all.

5. Also observe there are no source code repos in /etc/yum.repos.d/
Additional Informationhttps://vault.centos.org/centos/8/ does have source code, but, this is NOT the source code for the 8-stream release.
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toracat

toracat

2021-01-15 23:47

manager   ~0038178

See: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2021-January/076191.html
ustrin

ustrin

2021-03-02 17:56

reporter   ~0038287

This is a duplicate of https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=17951.
carlwgeorge

carlwgeorge

2021-05-04 15:34

developer   ~0038434

The sources for CentOS Stream 8 have always been available on https://git.centos.org in c8s branches of each individual dist-git repo. This meets the requirements of the GPL.

Additionally, about a month ago we started publishing our CS8 SRPMs to https://vault.centos.org/8-stream/.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2020-12-16 13:30 cnd New Issue
2021-01-15 23:44 toracat Status new => acknowledged
2021-01-15 23:47 toracat Note Added: 0038178
2021-03-02 17:56 ustrin Note Added: 0038287
2021-05-04 15:34 carlwgeorge Note Added: 0038434
2021-05-04 15:35 carlwgeorge Status acknowledged => closed
2021-05-04 15:35 carlwgeorge Resolution open => fixed
2021-05-04 16:19 toracat Status closed => resolved