modifying another distro's rpm for FC4
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Feb 10 13:53:19 UTC 2006
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.
In some cases you can take the SRPM from the other distro and build it
on Fedora. It won't always work, but I can't think of any other way of
doing it.
Paul.
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