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Starlink development wrote on :

> I'm no RPM expert -- I've only ever built one -- but I got
> the impression from talking to Tim last week that once you
> have the source RPM, a binary RPM can be generated from it
> either trivially or very simply.  Thus given the choice (and
> presuming that EPM can support both), it occurs to me that it
> might be efficient to concentrate on the source RPM, as you
> then get the binary RPM more-or-less for free.

I have done SRPMS and spec files for the JED editor and this is my view as
well! The spec file gets built into the SRPM and it's then just one command
to get the binary RPM(s).