unpacked SRPMs for updates

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Sat Oct 18 10:39:31 UTC 2003


On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Anton wrote:

> Where I can find unpacked src.rpm files for updates? I have very slow
> internet connection, so I need some sort of incremental updates such as
> provided by kerhel.org. It would be nice to download only new spec file
> and small patches than rebuild instead of downloading new binary
> packages.

Some mirrors will unpack rpms for you (eg.
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/
though it may be a day or two behind ftp.redhat.com). There has also been
talk of redhat allowing cvs access to their code, though I don't know
whether it is possible yet.

	Michael Young





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