RE: [TCLUG:9656] Evil, horrible renamed RPM vs. SRPM

["Ryberg, Nicholas" <nryberg@uspsoig.gov>]

Bob -

What is the difference between RPM's and SRPM's?  Where's the 'gold'?

Thanks!

- Nick R

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Tanner [mailto:tanner@real-time.com]
Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 6:30 PM
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9656] Evil, horrible, Linux-destroying corporations


Quoting Christopher Reid Palmer (reid@pconline.com):
> On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Bob Tanner wrote:
> 
> > > http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,32245,00.html
> > 
> > Being just a techincal person and not understanding business, why is
this a
> > bad thing?
> 
> Because Red Hat is evil! They're too commercial! Some Red Hat RPMs don't
> work on other distribuitions! Red Hat is the Microsoft of Linux! Et c.!!

What? Isn't that why we all love open source? I know lots of .deb that do
not
work on RedHat. Many Mandrake RPMs that do not work on Slackware.

** BUT **

If you take the .src.rpm, tarball, etc. I have had them ALL work on ALL
linux
platforms.

Personally and as a company that promotes and sells open source solutions
this
announcement is good news. The more exposure and "commerical" awareness of
open source the better.

Look out side the box here. RPMS are binaries and tend to cater to a
particular distribution. A RPM is no better then a Installshield MS program.
The differece is most RPMS come with SRPMS, that is the real gold.

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