On Tuesday 22 November 2011 04:55:24 pm Darrell Anderson wrote:
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: http://arklinux.osuosl.org/2008.1/SRPMS/ http://arklinux.osuosl.org/2008.1/SRPMS/koffice-1.6.3-3ark.src.rpm http://arklinux.osuosl.org/2008.1/SRPMS/koffice-i18n-1.3.2-2ark.src.rpm http://arklinux.osuosl.org/2008.1/SRPMS/koffice-i18n-3.5.0-0.473319.1ark.src... http://arklinux.osuosl.org/2008.1/SRPMS/koffice-klipart-stencils-20030823-1a...
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.