On 24-Jul-2001 Abraham Mandac wrote:
> Two questions:
>
> What is the difference between a 'regular'
> *.tar.gz source tarball and a *.src.rpm?
>
> And what does it mean when an rpm file has
> 'devel' in it?
>
> Thanks -- Abe
Technicly they are just two different forms of packing stuff together. But
normally the are used as described below:
a tar.gz is just the sourcecode without information about rpm stuff.
When you have a src.rpm you are able to build a binary rpm from this source
file (with the entries to the rpm database). (i.e. with rpm --rebuild
*.src.rpm).
Normally a src.rpm files contains a tarball and one (or more) additional files.
The most important one is packagnane.spec it tells the rpm programm everything
it must know (how to build a binary rpm from src, what files belong to this
package, what packages are required, what packages are provided, ....)
When do a rpm -ivh package.src.rpm you'll normally )depends on the creator
of the src.rpm) get package.tar.gz in /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES and
package.spec in /usr/src/RPM/SPECS
The devel packages normally come with a library. The normal package (without
devel) contains the libraries itself (.so, .a). They are needed in order to run
a program which is dynamicly linked against this lib.
The devel package contains the header files and all othter stuff that is
required to build (compile) a program that used this library. For example if
you want to compile a kde program you'll need the the devel packages of the
kdelibs but if you just want to use a kde programm you just need the "normal"
rpm package.
The devel doesn't say anything how stable the package is.
Gregor
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E-Mail: Gregor Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 24-Jul-2001
Time: 11:05:38
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