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What is the difference between RPMs and SRPMs?

RPMs contain the compiled binaries, whereas SRPMs contain the source code ready to be compiled.

RPMs can also be created or built from SRPMs using the follow line:

rpm --rebuild

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last modified: 2002-06-12 11:06:57

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