use yum to install SRPM files?

[John Thompson]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> You know what an SRPM is? You don't need to have the binary RPM
> installed to be able to "install" any SRPM. I put install in quotes
> here, because "installing" an SRPM mean to deflate it into the rpm-build
> directories (SPEC and SOURCES) to be able to rpmbuild the binary
> packages.

> For me it is not really clear you want intend.

Perhaps he is hoping to cobble up something similar to the *BSD "ports" 
system, or Gentoo's "portage."

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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)