Previously Joel Klecker wrote: > Wrong, SRPMs usually have at least an upstream tarball (even .tar.Z or > .tar.bz2) and many have several separate patches, a package that comes as > several tarballs (glibc) can also be handled. And you can say which patches need to be applied (so you can have seperate patches for each architecture for example). > The only real problem I have with SRPMs is the .spec file format and the > fact that one needs 'rpm2cpio.pl' at the very least to unpack one. Erik Troan said there will very likely be a new rpm format which can be viewed/extracted/created with standard POSIX tools, probably sometime next year. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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