[KLUG Members] Source RPMs, anyone?

Ralph M. Deal members@kalamazoolinux.org
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 06:42:06 -0500


Interesting offer!

Robert G. Brown wrote:

> Over the last few weeks, I've been involved in several projects that 
> have required the most recent source RPMs (if anyone is interested in
> why, I'll be happy to explain, but that's not the direction I care to
> take in THIS message). Not having them on-hand was a source of some 
> annoyance and delay in what was going on.

I've used source RPMs only when I couldn't get the binary rpm to work on 
my system.  Is your preference for source code because it allows for 
modification of the source code itself or because the process of 
installing from a source RPM allows you to modify the configuration?

	Looking forward to enlightment,   Ralph