CentOS - Sep 2005 - Noarch?

I'm very new to Linux, so please be very patient.  What is the
difference between a src.rpm and a noarch.rpm?

Thanks,
Cody

On 9/8/05, Cody Holland <cholland at 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?
> 
src are source RPMs that can be compiled/converted/rpmbuild (mind
hurts not an expert here).

noarch are not tied to a specific CPU architecture. 

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Cody Holland <cholland at 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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