SRPMS, Differences?

meb3v · 05-15-2006, 06:49 PM

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[ ] FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso 06-Jun-2005 22:58 612M
[ ] FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc2.iso 06-Jun-2005 22:59 612M
[ ] FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc3.iso 06-Jun-2005 23:00 612M
[ ] FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc4.iso 06-Jun-2005 23:01 612M
[ ] FC4-i386-disc1.iso 06-Jun-2005 22:54 635M
[ ] FC4-i386-disc2.iso 06-Jun-2005 22:55 638M
[ ] FC4-i386-disc3.iso 06-Jun-2005 22:56 638M
[ ] FC4-i386-disc4.iso

What is the difference between the SRPMS disc downloads and the ones without SRPMS?

rjwilmsi · 05-16-2006, 12:05 PM

SRPMS are source RPMs. According to http://tips.linux.com/article.pl?sid...tid=43&tid=104 this allows you to compile your own RPM from source if you can't find the appropriate binary RPM. If you don't understand that, you probably won't want SRPMS.