On Wednesday 21 Jan 2004 1:15 pm, R.I.Clarke C0052175 wrote: > Hi all, > > Im am pretty much a newbie to Mandrake. For my degree I need to get hold > of the source code for DrakX. If anyone could point me in the right > direction i would be very grateful. > > thank you > > Richard
Source code for all packages are on the mirrors. For example ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/SRPMS These are .src.rpm packages if you just click on them with konqueror, they will install themselves into /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES for the source code, and the spec file which describes how the RPM is built will install into /usr/src/RPM/SPECS. You can compile a binary RPM from the source simply by cd ing to the SPEC folder and entering rpmbuild -bc specfile see man 'rpmbuild' Naturally you will need any compilers or 'devel packages the source needs to be installed before it will compile successfully. HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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