8 Sep
2005
8 Sep
'05
9:31 p.m.
Cody Holland cholland@redmoonbroadband.com wrote:
I'm very new to Linux, so please be very patient. What is the difference between a src.rpm and a noarch.rpm?
_All_ end-user RPMs are "built" from their .src.rpm.
The .noarch.rpm is an end-user RPM that is not architecture specific. I.e., it works on all platforms -- .i386.rpm, .x86_64.rpm, .ppc.rpm, etc...
Typical .noarch.rpm packages are configuration, script and other files that do not have binaries, or are platform independent bytecode (e.g., p-code intepreted by another binary).
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