installing fedora packages on RHEL -- how bad the craziness?

[Martin Airs]

Could you not install from sources

get poppler.?.?.?.src.rpm

then rpmbuild --rebuild poppler.?.?.?.src.rpm

that should build you a centos rpm

Martin

On 12/04/2009 11:26 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>    actually, this is technically about installing fedora packages on
> centos 5.4 but, obviously, the same issues apply.  and i asked about
> this on the centos list but i'd like the fedora perspective as well.
>
>    the short version -- someone running centos 5.4 needs a fairly new
> version of poppler-utils for "pdftohtml".  the current version of that
> package is 0.5.4, and there is (AFAICT) no updated version.
>
>    that package is currently up at version 0.12:
> http://poppler.freedesktop.org/.  for this person's software to work,
> his centos box *must* have a newer version of poppler-utils than what
> is currently available for centos 5.4.
>
>    apparently, the problem was solved by (yeesh) installing a newer
> version package in the form of a fedora rpm.  how the heck does *that*
> work?  wouldn't that make a mess of the package history?  i imagine i
> would need, what, --nodeps and --ignorearch?  but is there a better
> way to do this?  i simply don't see a newer centos/rhel package, which
> would be the obvious solution.
>
> rday
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