On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 12:45, Michael Halcrow wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:33:18PM -0700, Michael L Torrie wrote:
> > An SRPM is a source code package with instructions on how to build it
> > and create a binary RPM.  They are useful if you want to take a package
> > made for redhat 6.2 and rebuild it to run on redhat 8 (linking against
> > new libraries, etc).
> 
> Although, if you install a package from RH6.2, expect your system to
> get rooted immediately afterward. :-)

Well a better thing would be adapting mandrake package to redhat or
redhat 8 to 9 (changes to glibc, pthreads, and openssl dictate a
recompile sometimes)


> 
> Mike 

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