use yum to install SRPM files?
John Thompson
JohnThompson at new.rr.com
Fri Sep 17 16:42:26 UTC 2004
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> You know what an SRPM is? You don't need to have the binary RPM
> installed to be able to "install" any SRPM. I put install in quotes
> here, because "installing" an SRPM mean to deflate it into the rpm-build
> directories (SPEC and SOURCES) to be able to rpmbuild the binary
> packages.
> For me it is not really clear you want intend.
Perhaps he is hoping to cobble up something similar to the *BSD "ports"
system, or Gentoo's "portage."
--
-John (john at os2.dhs.org)
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