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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