what exactly are source rpms (spms)
 

what exactly are source rpms (spms)

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A source prm file is an rpm to make an rpm for your system. Most rpms are configured to work on all systems. You compile a source rpm to create an rpm for your particular system. The src.rpm file creates an rpm file.

How do you compile source rpms? I have tried to using the rpm command but i get 2 warnings, user dag not found, using root and group dag noy found,using root. Then it does nothing afterwards. :Pengy: :newbie:

rpmbuild --recompile <srpm> will recompile and install the package
rpmbuild --rebuild will do the same as well as producing RPM packages from it.