On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:38:34PM -0400, Michael Jennings wrote:
> 
> Not trying to be pedantic here, but for the sake of clarity, RPM's are
> not distro-specific, exactly.  The RPM's as I do them are as
> distro-agnostic as they can be, in fact.  But they do require certain
> versions of certain shared libraries which may cause incompatibilities
> with some distros.  However, a simple rebuild from the SRPM will
> almost always fix those.  Dynamically linked binaries, by definition,
> cannot be as portable as source (as I'm sure you know, having done
> the Solaris packaging).
> 
> HTH,
> Michael

We could also build LSB compliant packages for people that have issues
with the other RPM's.

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