On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Tom Savage wrote:
> Now a redirect on that answer:
> Why would a person use a source RPM instead of just using a tar ball?
>
1) It is easier to rebuild an SRPM than a tarball:
for an srpm you just do rpm --rebuild srpm
for a tarball, you have to untar it, check the readme, ./configure, make
2) It is much easier to keep track of what is installed on a box if you do
everything with RPMS. This is useful especially when configuring
multiple boxes the same way. To generate an rpm, you must first
create an srpm.
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