On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:54 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<dominik(a)greysector.net> wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 November 2008 at 18:28, James Hubbard wrote:
> Why does anyone go searching for a srpm? Everyone has their reasons.
> You are assuming that the user has those tools. What if the user is
> on another system or does not have net connectivity? I will go back
> to older versions of fedora to download srpms. However, I usually
> know the package name.
>
> I do not believe that not having a separate srpm for this will be a
> problem. Anyone that needs it will probably figure it out. I think
> that having packages where there are multiple applications in one rpm
> is more of a problem from the end user stand point.
You can always check which src.rpm a package was built from with rpm -qi.
The post by Till Maas that I was responding to made that point. Did
you miss my point about being on a system that does not have rpm
installed? I have frequently downloaded rpms and occasionally srpms
while using a windows machine. In many U.S. government facilities,
it would be impossible to get a linux box onto a network with Internet
connectivity. There are corporate networks where it would be
forbidden to connect a linux system.
> The example that sticks out my head is the kdeskd rpm.
yum search kdeskd returns no results.
My mistake. The package name is kdesdk instead of kdeskd. There have
been times when I wanted to install Umbrello only. Unfortunately, it
installs all of the kde software development packages such as
kdevelop.