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by lars_francke 1091 days ago
The UBI images only contain a small subset of all RHEL packages.

The blog post is vague on this topic and I'm not sure if you can really get all sources that way. I have my doubts but I've never tried:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/4238681
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gbraad 1091 days ago
They are images tailored towards runtime use. They do not come with server components. For example, you can't get/download udhcpd in a UBI image.
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dizhn 1090 days ago
This is a very weird situaiton. As far as I know the whole Red Hat distribution is still open source. Now they put themselves in a position to refrain from publishing their open source changes. If those changes do not flow up or down stream, how are they going to keep calling themselves open source? (They don't call themsegpes free software as far as I can tell)
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gbraad 1087 days ago
UBI images are to host applications.

Do you need screen, udhcpd to do so? Nope, but you get httpd, etc. It is just a choice they made to make it easy to host your application in a RHEL container on top of OpenShift running on RHEL (fully supportable stack)

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