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[Oktay Altunergil]

Yeah.. I remember downloading the binary tar.gz rather than the source one in the past.. For some odd reason mysql.com lists the source packages at the very bottom on their download page (
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-3.23.html) while the binary package(s) are listed at the top.

Oktay

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:39:58 -0400
"P. Fawcett" <fawcett at bard.edu> wrote:

> tx. i know the resulting dif between bin/src/rpm (but didn't know
> deb/.tgz.  interesting on freebsd & gentoo)
> 
> but in downloading i can't tell from zipped tar file names  which is
> binary & which is source as they seem to be same format ie. php or
> mysql-ver-os.tar.gz.  unless maybe directory structure specific, but i
> didn't catch then when looking at mirrors
> 
> Oktay Altunergil wrote:
> > 
> > When there's confusion, there should be some explanation.
> > 
> > binary : as in precompiled on a different box and ready to run on another
> > source : you do './configure && ./make && ./make install' yourself. Compiled on your box.
> > rpm    : a package format to make managing software easier. rpm's are esentially *binary* files that adhere to a specification. (i.e specs describe where the files go, what scripts are run during the install etc) Other examples of binary package management systems are Debian's .deb, Slackware's .tgz  etc.
> > 
> > There's yet another system where there's a package management system in place but the software is built from source on your own computer. (FreeBSD ports and Gentoo portage are examples of this)
> > 
> > Oktay
> > 
> > On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:08:18 -0400
> > "P. Fawcett" <fawcett at bard.edu> wrote:
> > 
> >  [ header snip ]
> > >
> > > well i've certainly hit the admin confusion here, & prbly mismatches
> > >
> > > since i've got apache & php installed via binary (or source - still
> > > confused on that) but mysql is rpm'd,
> > 
> >  [ snip ]
> > 
> > 
> 
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