Greg Meyer wrote:
On Friday 07 November 2003 06:50 am, Anarky wrote:
can anybody plz tell me what source rpms are about? is there a
special procedure to installing them?
src.rpms are the raw sources that binary rpms are built from. They are no use
to you unless you would like to recompile them on your box.
They basically consist of tarballs of all the sources and patches that are
applied, plus a spec file, which is a configuration file that tells rpm how
to build and package the program. If you try to install one, these files
will be copied to /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES and /usr/SRC/RPM/SPECS.
and that's where I'll find a normal rpm?
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