On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Charles Hixson wrote:

>I understand that 7.0 isn't binary compatible with 6.x, but are
>the SRPMS compatible, or did the switch in rpm format kill
>them?

Some SRPMS should likely work fine, however Red Hat 7 tries to be
more FHS compliant, so things may not end up where you expect
them, but it should work nonetheless.  I've modified the SRPMS's
I've downloaded for 7 to work with 6.2.  cdrecord, and a few
others...

In general, only minor modifications were necessary.


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