What is noarch , el5 and fc6 ?
Hi All,
This sis just a qurious case of benjamin button, that I am asking such a silly thing...but could anybody please suggest me what is "noarch" in package names , and what is its significanse? There is 'el5' which means 'enterpriseLinux 5', and there is 'fc6' which means 'FedoraCore 6' ( I Hope). Thanks in advance, Kapil |
AFAIK, a package with the .noarch suffix is a package that isn't specific to any architecture (ie. x86, x86_64, sparc, etc.) It means that it can be installed on any of them.
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noarch means "Not architecture dependent." Usually a script or configuration file.
Note: I hope that you were just using fc6 as an example. That Fedora release has been unsupported for at least three years now. |
While the noarch suffix refers to architecture as explained from previous posts, the el5 and fc6 suffixes mean these packages have been built specifically for those particular Linux distributions - or better - they have been packaged from the official distributors, whereas third party repositories use their own suffix (for example "pm" from the Packman repository of OpenSuse packages).
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Thank you all,
I got a bit confused and asked that question. PTrenholme : 'fc6' is what I found when I tried "rpm -qa yum*" over my machine. Thank you again, Kapil. |
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