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Stuart Balfour yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:35:13 -0800 (PST)


>what is the difference between rpm & src.rpm?, how do i manage src.rpm ?

rpm is a package format, like tar.  You can do a rpm2cpio, to get a cpio 
archive, then unpack it with cpio -i.  Do a man on rpm2cpio and cpio to 
figure it out.

                                    Stuart