On 05/05/2021 00:38, Yasha Karant wrote: > I have not attempted to get a "dev" IBM RH license that supposedly is > at no cost -- has anyone done so and down a full buildable source > download?
Just go here to create a free dev account (which allows up to 16 RHEL instances and, of course, access to the source): https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__developers.redhat.com_&d=DwICaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=ObAgDY_TU7L4qolv1HO4YKSLeRAOSzDkm6OTpx47idw&s=8oCGvFp4dJb4JYifT2CdSkj6ZNstAyKIQHh0qmtXEoc&e= . I have a free dev account. It is very easy to sign up. Once you have an account you can easily download the sources. It is obviously buildable if you can figure out how to build it. I've never tried. Other clever people are kindly willing to do that for me! The source (for RHEL 8.3, as an example) is downloadable as a 20.1GB ISO containing, I believe, SRPMs. I did download it once but I've never bothered to look inside it. Building from the RHEL source RPMs (and removing the Red Hat proprietary IP) is left as an exercise for the reader. ;-) Thus building an open source clone of RHEL with the Red Hat proprietary IP removed is of course possible, but no one said it had to be easy or straightforward. It is not surprising in my opinion that it has taken the Rocky project some time to get to an initial RC state. As far as I am aware, Alma was only able to do it more quickly because CloudLinux was already a rebuild of RHEL (with their own customisations) and so they already had a working build system in place that they could alter to produce a 'pure' clone in the form of Alma. > Does this also access the update buildable source for the installable > "binary" updates provided by IBM RH EL for the licensees? I think so, yes. There is an 'Errata' section in the downloads area for RHEL that has a list of advisories. If you look at the details for each advisory then you can see a list of updated packages for it and this usually includes download links for both binary RPMs and source RPMs.
