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 _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
