SRPMs (source
RPMs) contain the build scripts, and can be
installed/unpacked the same as binary RPMs. From talking
with others, though, I'm not sure how many distros actually
use SRPMs. Some put their spec files (the build script) and
sources in either tarballs or version control.
All I need are some links...
I'm providing links to Ark Linux SRPMs since that is the only distro I'm truly
familiar with. This is to their last stable release:
Those are KDE3, since 2008.1 was before TDE. Hopefully soon I can start TDE RPMs for our
development version. I don't expect the file lists to have changed much.
I don't know the differences between RPMs and whatever Slackware uses, so I don't
know how easy it will be to convert.
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Kristopher Gamrat
Ark Linux webmaster