Re: Sendmail + some stuff I just have to say ...;-)

[Anand Buddhdev <arb anand org>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:59:12AM +0530, Anurag Jalan wrote:

> Now that I have RH 6.2 on my laptop, I want to 'master' sendmail 8.11.3

Why do you want to torture yourself? Anyway, sendmail's source comes with
instructions for compiling it.

> I prefer compiling my server packages from tarballs , so I haven't really 
> understood
> the diff between .rpms and .src.rpms . I mean how does one install a 
> package from
> a source rpm .. would a # rpm -ivh sample.src.rpm work ?

A source RPM simply installs the source on your system, and you then go on
to use RPM to build the actual binary RPM and then install it. This gives
you the advantage of being able to control how the package will be built.
You then install it as normal using RPM, so you still have a system with
all software accounted for by RPM. If you don't want to build an RPM, then
you can take a shortcut and install the source RPM, but then simply
unzip/untar the source, and build it directly by hand, and then install it.
But you lose the ability to have a record of all software on the system.

-- 
Anand