The software described in this documentation is either in Extended Support or Sustaining Support. See https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/enterprise-linux-support-policies-069172.pdf for more information.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.
RPMs can contain either binary or source packages.
A binary RPM is compiled for a particular target architecture
such as x86_64, or noarch
if its contents do not depend on the architecture as is the case
for documentation and scripts. An example of a binary RPM might
contain the GCC compiler and tools compiled for an Intel x86-64
target. Separate packages are required for each hardware
platform that a package supports.
A source RPM provides the source code for binary packages and allows you to create a binary RPM.