On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:27:32 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > As far as I recall for Fedora (haven't used it in a while) what you > download as a src.rpm is already patched the way Fedora has compiled it > to make the rpm. I don't know about the others, but I assume all binary > distro's would be the same or similar... For the record I think you are (slightly) wrong. The idea of source rpm's is that they contain the pristine sources from the upstream authors, along with a set of patches that get applied when you compile the src.rpm package. So you will likely get inside the src.rpm package: * the original unpatched source as a tar.gz or tar.bz2 file (as packaged upstream) * a set of patch files - some of which may be distro specific, some of which may have been produced elsewhere in the community * a .spec file which is the equivalent of the .ebuild file - ie the build and install instructions * scripts for pre/post install/uninstall actions. So in short it is pretty easy to find what patches have been applied to produce the binary package, provided you can find the src.rpm (even the .spec file will tell you a lot). -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
