On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:33:18PM -0700, Michael L Torrie wrote: > An SRPM is a source code package with instructions on how to build it > and create a binary RPM. They are useful if you want to take a package > made for redhat 6.2 and rebuild it to run on redhat 8 (linking against > new libraries, etc).
Although, if you install a package from RH6.2, expect your system to
get rooted immediately afterward. :-)
Mike
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