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[Kelson]

John Nemeth wrote:
> At that point an original tarball is downloaded from the master site
> for the package, the tarball is checksummed, and packed.  Then the
> sources are patched (either with patches that are downloaded and/or
> included in ports/pkgsrc).  After this, configure is run if needed,
> then make, make install, and finally it is registered as being
> installed on the system.

For RPM-based systems, a source RPM would probably have the same effect, 
though it might be necessary to download the tarball instead of 
embedding it as they normally do.  I recall seeing someone distributing 
"nosrc" RPMs for some package that left out the tarball for bandwidth 
reasons, so it should be possible.

-- 
Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>