How to install src.rpm updates
Has anyone any idea of how can we install ...src.rpm update files? (security patces, updates etc. from Suse) Although there is no error message when we try to install them, when we run a query we see that there hasn't been any update. Therefore, we have no problem installing .rpm files. In that case everything seems to work fine. Do we miss something or there's a special procedure to install ...src.rpm updates? Thanks in advance, i remain...
Well, your installing source code RPM's..not binaries. If you go into /usr/src/packages/SOURCES then you shall fine all the RPM's you've installed. These packages are if you wish to compile your own tweaked version of the software. If your just looking for binary (pre-compiled) versions of the software don't install src files. :) I would give it a go with the binary RPM's .. all src RPM's are in the Z series.. * Nikos Psarrakis (n.psarrakis@gsis.gov.gr) [020331 23:53]: ->Has anyone any idea of how can we install ...src.rpm update files? (security patces, updates etc. from Suse) ->Although there is no error message when we try to install them, when we run a query we see that there hasn't been any update. -> ->Therefore, we have no problem installing .rpm files. In that case everything seems to work fine. -> ->Do we miss something or there's a special procedure to install ...src.rpm updates? -> ->Thanks in advance, i remain... -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC --=====-----=====--
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