[mythtv-users] Re: Putting a toe in the CVS water

[Ivor Hewitt]

Phill Edwards wrote:
>> 
>> Ah, there's a bit of assumption on my part. No, those are the
>> binary RPMs (the .i386 gives it away, that's the processor type).
>> Source RPMs have .src.rpm at the end and should be identical no
>> matter what platform it is for. (After all, it's still source at
>> that point, so not platform specific.)
> 
> 
> Oh - I thought these would be source RPMs as I got the list from 
> http://atrpms.net/dist/fc2/myth-cvs/  I'm a bit confused now as I 
> thought it a list of CVS RPMs would be source code.
> 

Those are pre-built binary packages of the source code from CVS from a
particular date.

I didn't see the rest of this thread, so maybe a daft question.... but
if you want to use the CVS source code..... ummm.... why don't you use
CVS to get the source code?