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.
For me it is not really clear you want intend.
Perhaps he is hoping to cobble up something similar to the *BSD "ports" system, or Gentoo's "portage."
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-John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
