On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, voguemaster wrote: > >Supporting anything but your distro is quite impossible if you want to use > >the neat macros that each distribution supplies, and don't want to go for > >the lowest denominator or do all the hardwork about guessing architecture, > >library locations, etc'. my solution is to build RPMs for my distro, and > >anyone else can grab the SRPM and hack the SPEC file. > > > > > > So how is it that RH and Mandrake RPMs are sometimes interchangeable ? > I know Mandrake was based on RH (in some aspects) but according to you > this even shouldn't be possible.. >
I believe that the keyword here is "sometimes" I believe that they do try to make their rpms systems similar. After-all they share a lot of code (that is: each of them borrows code from the other) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
