Below is an email I got in reply to a question...
Is mandrake...version 4 or 3 of RPMs????????
can someone tell me
Andrew Meredith wrote:
>
> KompuKit wrote:
> >
> > Hi...could you perhaps...make rpms for the Mandrake 7.2
> > OS? it would be "version.mdk.i586.rpm"
> >
> > of your DVD sets
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Have you tried to use the posted ones? The whole point of rpm is that it
> is platform independant, so it matters not whether it is Mandrake, Suse,
> Red Hat or whatever. The only difference I can see is that these are
> version 4 rpms and I suspect that Mandrake uses version 3 still. If this
> is the case, then you might like to upgrade to version 4 of the rpm
> package. See http://www.anvil.org/oms/rpm4/ for more details.
>
> Oh and the filename used is not really relevant, it is a naming
> convention. It goes:
>
> <package>-<app version>-<package release>.<architecture>.rpm
>
> Sorry if this is a bit .. erm .. brief and to the point, but I am about
> to step out of the door and I wanted to get you a response before I
> left.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Andrew Meredith
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