On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 12:27 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:27:32 +0930
> Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
> > As far as I recall for Fedora (haven't used it in a while) what you
> > download as a src.rpm is already patched the way Fedora has compiled it
> > to make the rpm. I don't know about the others, but I assume all binary
> > distro's would be the same or similar...
>
> For the record I think you are (slightly) wrong.
>
> The idea of source rpm's is that they contain the pristine sources from
> the upstream authors, along with a set of patches that get applied when
> you compile the src.rpm package. So you will likely get inside the
> src.rpm package:
Of course, I stand corrected. I think you're right - it's been a long
time since I've been to binary or rpm world!
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