There are a few reasons one would use source RPM's 1. dependency problems..lets say I have a binary RPM of the web and I get a nasty dependency problem what can I do...Well I can download a pile of new libs "yuk" and break a few things "extra yuk" or I can try get the source RPM and hack that in and save myself a few headaches. 2. the binary RPM has a bug but I can download a small 1k patch file and patch that to the source rpm (yes you can unpack an rpm and then patch it then repack it). 3 same as above but the binary has a hardware problem 4 I have a Pentium 4 and I dont want any crummy i386 binary I want a i686 because I want MAX SPEED......meep meep :-P 5. Ive hacked GCC for a few funky extra's in my machine and I want to compile the source so it takes advantage of the extra's Ive set in GCC 6. I'm from the NSA and I dont trust any crummy rpm I want the source.
Hope that helps........yeah I know its not perfect but neither am I On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 03:34, Alan L Tyree wrote: > This sounds like a stupid question even to me, but... > > What good are src.rpm files? How can I use them, and why would I want > to? I don't understand their purpose when they are accompanied by > binary rpms with the same program. I have just installed RH8 and I > wonder what I can do with the other three CDs. > > Cheers, > Alan > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------ > Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant > Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 > Mobile: +61 419 638 170 > Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- ******************************************************************** * Hey if you're going to get mad at me every time I do something * * stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things! * ******************************************************************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
