Does fedora mt-st-0.7-13.1.i386 rpm work on RHL 9?

[Tom Haws]

Rainer Traut wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Tom Haws schrieb:
>
>> I am having a problem with a new Exabyte Magnum 1x7 LTO-2 autoloader 
>> on my RHL 9.0 system.  The tape drive is recognized, but it is 
>> extremely sl-o-o-o-w.  I can't find an RPM
>> for RHL 9 above the one already on my system (mt-st-0.7-10.1.i386), 
>> but I have found mt-st-0.7-13.1.i386 for fedora.
>>
>> Would this rpm work on my RHL 9 system? 
>
>
> Maybe you should try.
> Download the src rpm and recompile.
>
> rpmbuild --rebuild [name_of_src-rpm]
>
> Then look under /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
> If all went fine you see it there.
>
> Rainer
>
Thanks, I will try it.  Your suggestion of rebuilding it from the source 
is a good one- I never thought of that.  I am used to installing the 
binaries from rpm, but installing from source should reduce the risk of 
any Fedora-specific kernel issues causing problems.  It's a production 
server, so I really want to make sure I don't break things...

-Tom

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