Re: Dumb beginner question

[Hans Zoebelein <hzo goldfish cube net>]

You can install *.noarch.rpm files (==no special architecture) on every
platform without a recompile. A *.noarch.rpm package  doesn't contain
any compiled stuff (otherwise that package wouldn't be architecture
independent). 

So if you have the choice between foo.noarch.rpm and foo.src.rpm, you
should choose the foo.noarch.rpm

But what does the src.rpm package contain?.
If you have a foo.src.rpm and a foo.noarch.rpm, then the foo.src.rpm
holds the original file archives and a spec file from which the
foo.noarch.rpm is built.

--Hans


On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Walt Smith wrote:

> Yes, there are .rpm versions, but since nobody's answered my question
> regarding the difference between the noarch file and the src file, this
> isn't much help.  From the aforementioned user's guide, I gather that I
> have to get the src distribution and compile it myself, which I figured
> I'd have to do since each variety of Linux would require a different
> compile.
> 
>