Nathan Ingersoll wrote:
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).
We could also build LSB compliant packages for people that have issues with the other RPM's.
Definitely agreed. The spec file in CVS, and so in RPMs offered for download, should be as distro agnostic as possible. Where there are differences it should default to anything specified in the LSB, or otherwise to the choice made by most distros. It should be made clear to users that, as Michael points out, the SRPMs may be recompiled on any rpm based distro, and any binary RPMs that are provided should clearly be labelled as to what distro they were built on (which is the case).
Cheers
-- Stuart
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