There like glorified tarballs. As I understand it, so you have versioning and dependency checking in your sources. I don't know if redhat makes a separate dependency list for source packages. This isn't explained or even suggested in the rpm howto but obviously your dependencies may be different. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Berry" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 11:39 AM Subject: question about srpms > Hello there list, > > It has been a while since I have worked with Redhat. I know that > srpms are source packages. What are their purposes. Do you compile > these for what you want? Just can't remember what their use is. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
