modifying another distro's rpm for FC4

James Wilkinson fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk
Sat Feb 11 11:14:53 UTC 2006


John Summerfied wrote:
> Binary compatibility and deps are only part of the story. The scripts 
> I've already mentioned, there are also possibilities with filename 
> conflicts, maybe interactions with other packages (the DHCP set of 
> programs works very differently on SUSE) and more, I'm sure.

Scripts are a good point, but if RPM doesn't catch filename conflicts,
that's a bug that should be reported.

James.

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