On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Chris Abbey wrote:
> OK, I'll admit I'm not the greatest RPMer in the world... far from it in
> fact; but what you just described sounds like the definition of a SPEC
> file, not a src.rpm to me.
The point of the src.rpm in the netscape case is to give you the spec
file. The advantage of the src.rpm over putting in just the spec file is
(among other things) that you can rpm --rebuild * to rebuild everything
and still get all the packages.
> >And, of course, it's much easier to build an RPM for netscape 4.8 if you
> >already have one for 4.7 to start working from.
>
> 4.8! already? WOW! :) I'm still trying to download 4.7 at work.
4.8 isn't released yet. I should have said "will be much easier"...
LLaP
bero
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