> What the difference between an SRPM and an RPM ? 
> He asks very sheepishly. 

SRPM is the source code for the package

RPM is a precompiled binaries (*i386.rpm is precompiled for the Intel
architecture)

Hope this helps!!

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Brian Eith                                 
UW-Madison Computer Sciences
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