das wrote: >> Sorry, I assumed that you've built rpms from source rpms before. There >> really is nothing to it. Just execute: >> >> $ rpmbuild --rebuild <the source rpm> >> >> This should build the binary rpm. In fact if it fails for any reason, that's >> a bug and you should report it (either in the BZ, or just mail me). >> >> > > Really it worked easy and fine. This created three RPM-s, > xpaint-2.7.8.1-4.fc10.i386.rpm, xpaint-devel-2.7.8.1-4.fc10.i386.rpm, > and xpaint-debuginfo-2.7.8.1-4.fc10.i386.rpm. I installed all three of > For all normal uses you, should be fine with only the first RPM. The -devel rpms contain header files etc that are required to build some other package that may depend on this package. The -debuginfo RPM has binaries that contain more information for debugger in case you need to analyses crashes etc with the software.
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