[horde] Tarballs versus SRPMS

Brent J. Nordquist bjn at horde.org
Wed Jun 12 05:26:50 PDT 2002


On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Richard G Konlon <RGKonlon at 1MailPlace.com> wrote:

> Is there any difference, other than the obvious archive structure,
> between the "tarballs" and the SRPMS?
> 
> I would perfer to use the RPMs, but don't want to miss out on anything
> by so doing.

Sorry for the late reply.  No, you won't miss out on anything.  The RPMs
(which come from the SRPMs) contain everything the tarballs do.

In case the next question is "what about RPMs for IMP 3.1 etc." the answer
is "I'm just about to start cutting those".  :-)

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