RPM Compatibility CentOS4/FC4

[Rick Stevens]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 11:33 -0700, gdub wrote:
> Good morning-
> 
> I need a package (Perdition 1.17), for
> which I have only found a CentOS4 RPM.
> 
> Are such packages generally compatible
> with FC4? If not, iss it better to do a
> local build than try to jigger such a
> package onto an FC4 machine?

CentOS4 and RHEL4 are based on FC3, not FC4.  However, as someone else
has noted, you can get the source RPM for the CentOS version and rebuild
it on your FC4 machine.

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