modifying another distro's rpm for FC4

John Summerfied debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sat Feb 11 12:14:41 UTC 2006


James Wilkinson wrote:
> 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.

The problem it _might_ cause is one package or the other won't install. 
Not a bug if they're from different distros.

> 


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