On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 17:11 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Eric Christensen wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:53, Mikkel L. Ellertson > > <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I guess I don't see the problem - the source RPMs are normally > >> available from the same mirrors as the binary RPMs. It is just a > >> matter of enabling the source repo (It is in the config, just > >> disabled.) and selecting the source RPM you want. This way, you get > >> the "virgin source" plus the patches that Fedora is using. The .spec > >> file normally has a pointer to the upstream web site as well, just > >> in case it isn't in the source package. > > > > And that is one way of obtaining a version of the source. But how did > > you know you could get the source from the repos? Is that were ALL > > the source files? > > > I don't really remember where the information came from any more. I > do know that a full mirror will have a SRPMS directory with the > source RPMs in it. > > In order to have a binary RPM, you first need a source RPM. There > may be some exceptions in some of the extra repo's, but all the > "official" Fedora RPMs need to have a source RPM that they were > built from. It does get a bit complicated in that one source RPM may > generate more then one binary RPM. Also, some binary RPMs are not > really binaries, but things like header files needed for building > other programs. > > By the specifications, the source RPM has to contain the source code > and packages to build the RPM. It can, and usually will, have > dependencies on other packages. These are normally the same > dependencies needed to build the package yourself from a tar file. > > One other thing - if you look at the headers of a binary RPM, you > will usually find the URL of the upstream home site of the package. > (The headers have all kinds of interesting information.) > > I believe most of this is covered in teh RPM documentation... > > Mike But as someone pointed out, that source RPM isn't in an exceptionally open format. AND I know that everything Fedora produces isn't in RPM format. Eric
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