On Thursday, 10 בJuly 2008, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > I have no problem extracting the tarball, patches, etc from the source > rpm, I was looking for the original source (the project site) - I was > thinking that perhaps the rpm makers might have altered the source > slightly.
If you distribution (you didn't say which) is composed by sane people than the tarball contained in the RPM is the *pristine* tarball -- which means it is an *exact* copy of the original tarball. That's why the SRPM may contain additional sources, patches, etc. This guideline is shared by any responsible distribution regardless if it uses RPM (e.g: Fedora) or deb (e.g: Debian). The simple reason for this guideline, is that without it there is no chance for the package maintainers to differentiate their changes from changes done by the upstream developers and stay sane... > As it looks now, I will either have to use the tarball from the source > rpm, Yes, that's the one you want. If you want to have with the distribution patches included, than simply use rpmbuild -bp <the_spec_file> to have it extract and patch the source. > or just drop libtermcap in favor of curses (might necessitate code changes). This may be justified because of other reasons (ncurses has more features and is better maintained that old termcap). Obviously, this has nothing to do with the RPM/SRPM question, as it is packaged exactly like termcap with the same (distro) policy. -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron Ignore Your Rights And They'll Go Away ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
