On Wednesday 19 January 2005 23:10, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >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' ? That may well work for a src rpm that you have to build, but with ready to run object codes in the archive, all bets would be off. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
