modifying another distro's rpm for FC4

[John Summerfied]

Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 08:12:05AM -0500, 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. 
> 
> 
> When using rpmbuild --rebuild *.src.rpm with foreign SRPMs, you may
> want to be aware of the macro differences.  See my post to rpm-list in a
> thread about macro differences between distros:

and better than "rpmbuild --rebuild" is "rpm -i" after which you inspect 
the spec and config files for hazards. Then, "rpm -ba "



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