thats great, thanks for your help Derek and Greg, much appreciated
-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 21/01/2004 13:27
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [newbie] DrakX source code
On Wednesday 21 Jan 2004 1:15 pm, R.I.Clarke C0052175 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Im am pretty much a newbie to Mandrake. For my degree I need to get
hold
> of the source code for DrakX. If anyone could point me in the right
> direction i would be very grateful.
>
> thank you
>
> Richard
Source code for all packages are on the mirrors. For example
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/SRPMS
These are .src.rpm packages if you just click on them with konqueror, they
will install themselves into /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES for the source code, and
the spec file which describes how the RPM is built will install into
/usr/src/RPM/SPECS.
You can compile a binary RPM from the source simply by cd ing to the SPEC
folder and entering
rpmbuild -bc specfile
see man 'rpmbuild'
Naturally you will need any compilers or 'devel packages the source needs to
be installed before it will compile successfully.
HTH
derek
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