John Richard Smith wrote:Yes and No, by en large they are mostily well honed down versions, so provided you have compatible hardware, and all dependencies installed the compile to your hardware should give you a better , faster, more reliable fit.
Anarky wrote:thanks for the explanation. ... and these files are more 'problem free' than tarball instalations (I don't like those .. I get lots of problems with those) ?
can anybody plz tell me what source rpms are about? is there a special procedure to installing them?Source code , SRC.rpms are just that.
you have to create a directory place <package>.src.rpm in it, and in a terminl,
cd directory sources
rpm --rebuild <package>.src.rpm
If it's a big one and you want the errors messages pumped to a text file,
rpm -rebuild <package>.src.rpm 2> <pathtotextfile>.txt
you don't have to make a text file ,just name it and it will create the text file where you tell it.
One thing I forget to say, after the compile you find the <package>.rpm in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586
you then you run that to install the compiled software.
I believe gentoo relies upon this method.
John
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