To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list redhat com>
Subject: Re: what is the difference between srpm and rpm?
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:35:37 +0000
Y J Lorenzen wrote:
Manny times when I download I see files called srpm and rpm what are
they?
An SRPM ("Source RPM") contains the source code, patches and build scripts for
a package. A regular RPM contains pre-built binaries ready for installation.