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.rpm http://arklinux.osuosl.org/2008.1/SRPMS/koffice-klipart-stencils-20030823-1ark.src.rpm 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. -- Kristopher Gamrat Ark Linux webmaster http://www.arklinux.org/