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11-06-2002, 04:08 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 8
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Rpm? Srpm? Cvs?
Maybe somone could fill me in on a few things...
What is the difference between RPM and SRPM packages?
What is a "CVS version"?
Thx,
DKWTHID (Don't Know What The Heck I'm Doing) |
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11-06-2002, 04:13 PM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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rpm = binary distribution
srpm = source rpm package (i.e. you need to compile it)
cvs = concurrent versions system. (online code editing, a way to get the very latest version of a system, but no guarentees it will compile.)
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11-06-2002, 05:56 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Plymouth, England.
Distribution: Mostly Debian based systems
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.rpm = files that should install nicely and you can run it straight away.
.srpm (or .src.rpm) = Almost as simple, but is actually the source files.
CVS = Somewhat more 'hardcore' than the others... sortof.
.tar.gz = Source code files, more common than the rpm source things.
.tar.bz2 = Same as above, but uses a different compresser... think difference between ZIP and RAR files?
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01-05-2004, 08:23 PM
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Oxford
Distribution: Slackware, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, NetBSD
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how do you compile a source rpm?
thanks
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01-05-2004, 08:57 PM
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Registered: May 2003
Location: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Distribution: slackware
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i answered this the other day actually
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