Why are RPM's distro specific?
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Thu Jan 20 01:53:53 UTC 2005
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.
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