Michael A. Peters wrote:
On 01/19/2005 05:42:24 PM, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Out of curiousity, I'd like to know why RPM's are, or at least some
are, distro specific? That would be with the obvious exception of
distro specific apps.
It usually has to do with different config file locations - something
the LSB is working to resolve, or with different versions of shared
libraries - in which case often times, it is often just a matter
recompiling the src.rpm on the target distro.
The problem of different paths seems trivial. Why can't an RPM simply
reference $CONF_FOLDER for example, and then let the machine on which
the rpm is unpacked tell it that $CONF_FOLDER = '/etc' ?
