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recently, I installed a redhat 6.1 , sometime I want to download some warez for linux, but I find there are two version , one is .noarch.rpm ,and another is .src.rpm. what is the difference? what's the meaning?

liu

You probably want the noarch.rpm. Some rpm's are actually platform independent,
e.g. ghostscript fonts, X-windows fonts, print-filter shell scripts. These are
exactly the same byte-by-byte in whichever processors they are to go onto (intel,
alpha, sparc version of linuxes). src.rpm is the source for that (in these cases,
usually just a big tgz file, etc as they were available from the software author.)

In these cases, the difference of src.rpm and noarch.rpm can be very little - the
noarch rpm simply unpack the files in the right places inside the system.

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|> recently, I installed a redhat 6.1 , sometime I want to download some
|> warez for linux, but I find there are two version , one is .noarch.rpm ,
|> and another is .src.rpm. what is the difference? what's the meaning?
|>
|> liu
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