where to find rpm's and, which one?

[mouse3]

can someone please direct me to the usual
places to find rpms?

i'm specifically looking for the latest
mesa 3.4.2. I've already poked around http://www.mesa3d.org but couldn't find
anything there about rpm's.

which leads me to my 2nd question: do rpm's
ever come with the source code? i'm
specifically interested in doing some opengl
development on linux. i've got mandrake8.
it's got all the mesa and glut libs installed
but there are no header files to be found.
can i get an rpm to install the libs and headers
all in one shot?

yeah.. i know how to d/l the tar.gz and
install it, but i was hoping to keep everything
rpm'd--it *would* be cleanest/easiest that
way, right?

thanks.

[Stween]

www.rpmfind.net (http://www.rpmfind.net/) should be able to help you out in finding an RPM...

And some RPM's are source rpms, although iv never really looked at them in depth.

The rpm package management system is certainly more tidy than compiling your own in that it is easier to uninstall/upgrade software, although there are those that would say debian's package managment system is better ... I don't know - iv never used it. Stick with what you feel comfortable using :)


Stween

[mouse3]

thanks!

it looks like there's 2 separate rpm's:
1 for the binaries and 1 for the source.

seems like they even provide different rpm's
for particular distro's. not sure why that
would matter tho... rpm is an open standard,
no?

btw, i think i'd be comfortable with either
tar.gz or rpm to do the install, but in the
long run, i'm guessing things would likely
remain much more organized if i can stick
with rpm's.

btw; any place else besides www.rpmfind.net (http://www.rpmfind.net)
just curious.. :)

[ 18 June 2001: Message edited by: mouse3 ]

[nuisance]

Since you're using mandrake, you should also get the rpms with 'mdk' in the name since they're optimized for mandrake boxes. i.e. Mesa-3.4.2-1mdk.i586.rpm rather than Mesa-3.4.2-1.i586.rpm

[mouse3]

thanks nuisance,
i ended up hunting through the mandrake listing grabbing everything that looked useful for mesa/glut/i586. i dumped all the rpms into a folder in my home folder (ie. /home/mouse3/mesaAndGlutRPMs ) then used the graphical rpm software update program (that comes installed on the mandrake8 desktop) to set that folder up as a "source" of rpm's. After choosing them all to to installed, i ended up with what looked like to me as some duplication, but maybe the gui rpm install program lists all previous versions or something... anyhow, thanks for the help. my little sample program now compiles and runs. :)