On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, C U 2    [iso-8859-1] ®¿® wrote:

> New versions on 13 Feb are 
> 
> The .src.rpm is 3 Kb but a -noarch.rpm
> (with about the same name & version no.)
> is more like 1385 Kb.  What am I missing
> - i.e. -if- these files are related...?

Nothing. The SRPM is basically a spec file with a shell script that
copies a prebuilt image into the correct location prior to building the
RPM. The SRPM doesn't actually contain the boot image, but the RPM does.

Feel free to examine the SRPM and you'll see what I mean.

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Regards
Peter
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