Topic: src and noarch files

[Peter Lion]

can anyone please tell me the difference between the scr and noarch rpms

thx.

[Cyrus Bharda]

A bit of "the blind leading the blind here", but I think that noarch are compiled and src arent, and src contains the source code not the binary code? Am I correct?

Cyrus Bharda

[Kelvin]

.src files are source files.
.noarch basically stands for not architecture dependent. You would have noticed by now how some rpm files have .ix86 in them. These means they are compiled for Intel x86 platforms. The .noarch files should work on other platforms as well as they are not tied to any specific platform (but could depend on other prerequisites).

Eg. An rpm made up of perl scripts or bash scripts can easily be a .noarch type file (as long as the target platform has perl / bash and any other dependencies installed).