On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Scott Klement wrote: > Are there other considerations? Like, do I have to generate different > RPMs for different releases of RedHat? I'm primarily a FreeBSD user, so > forgive me if this sounds naive, but, do RedHat RPMs work on other Linuxes > (Slackware, Debian, etc) or are they completely separate?
I believe other distros can use rpms, but maybe don't support them well. I know on Slackware you have to specify to ignore dependencies and force install. It would probably be best to have distro-specific installers like .deb and .tgz, but rpms are a (very) good first step. James Rich _______________________________________________ This is the Linux 5250 Development Project (LINUX5250) mailing list To post a message email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/linux5250 or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250.
