Alexander Dalloz wrote:
You know what an SRPM is? You don't need to have the binary RPM installed to be able to "install" any SRPM. I put install in quotes here, because "installing" an SRPM mean to deflate it into the rpm-build directories (SPEC and SOURCES) to be able to rpmbuild the binary packages.
I know I should probably just stop being lazy and just download the ISO files and just mount them and install that way, I was just wondering if there was a way to let yum download the updated versions and install them to the system right directly.
For me it is not really clear you want intend.
Hi Alex;
What I was going to do was play around with building RPM's and recompiling them. More or less just practicing and trying stuff out. I know the SRPM's are just for if I want to compile my own RPM. I have lots of room on my hard drive so I figured it wouldn't hurt to put them on so that I could just fiddle with different package sets.
Thanks for the suggestion about using up2date. I really need to set up up2date to use my close mirror, I never really bothered with it much because I liked using yum much better.
Gerald Thompson
