James Wilkinson wrote:
Claude Jones wrote:
I seem to remember that there was an rpm command that could be run to take an
rpm not built for FC4 and rebuild it for FC4 installation - or something to
that effect. I read through the man rpm but didn't see anything that clicked.
I tried a couple of archive searches but nothing popped up. Am I missing the
obvious? What I have is an rpm built for PCLinuxOS which is a derivative of
Mandriva - I'm told that those rpm's can generally be used in FC4 as there is
a distant relationship in the distros.
You know, depending on the application, just installing the RPM has a
good chance of working. Linux tends to have good binary compatibility
for userland apps. And most RPM dependencies tend to be on files or
libraries, not RPM names.
Binary compatibility and deps are only part of the story. The scripts
I've already mentioned, there are also possibilities with filename
conflicts, maybe interactions with other packages (the DHCP set of
programs works very differently on SUSE) and more, I'm sure.
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Cheers
John
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