RHEL 6 Questions about glibc-static package

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Issue

  • glibc-static is not provided in RHEL6 Beta1 ISO.
  • Please note that glibc-static was provided in RHEL6 Alpha ISO.

Questions

  1. Why is glibc-static is not provided in the RHEL6 Beta1 ISO?  There is a comment as "It's in the optional repository" in Bug586569.
  2. Is glibc-static to be provided from ftp.redhat.com throughout  the whole RHEL6 life cycle?

http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/6.0/optional/i386/os/Packages/glibc-static-2.11.1-1.10.el6.i686.rpm

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux6 Beta1
  • Related Package Version: glibc-static-2.11.1-1.10.el6

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