Re: building rpms on debian system?

2006-04-25 Thread Kris Deugau
The Fungi wrote: I'm not sure I've seen what seems to me to be the obvious solution come through in a reply yet, but why not just create a custom chroot for your target distribution (be it RHEL 4 or SUSE 9 or whatever) and build in there? Apparently this works pretty well for most people. If

Re: building rpms on debian system?

2006-04-21 Thread Kris Deugau
[This is probably the wrong list for this.] Ek Zindagoi wrote: I would like to build rpms on a debian system for use on a redhat system. Can I do that on a debian system ? In short, no; system libraries on a RedHat system likely have different versions (and soversions), as well as a few

Re: building rpms on debian system?

2006-04-21 Thread The Fungi
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:32:14PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: [This is probably the wrong list for this.] Ek Zindagoi wrote: I would like to build rpms on a debian system for use on a redhat system. Can I do that on a debian system ? In short, no; system libraries on a RedHat system

Re: building rpms on debian system?

2006-04-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Ek Zindagoi wrote: I would like to build rpms on a debian system for use on a redhat system. Can I do that on a debian system ? As a short-term solution, you can cheat by making a Debian package and using alien --to-rpm. However, if anyone tries to put your RPMs into one

building rpms on debian system?

2006-04-19 Thread Ek Zindagoi
Hi, I would like to build rpms on a debian system for use on a redhat system. Can I do that on a debian system ? Even if I wanted to install the RPM on a debain system, can I run the rpmbuild -bb command on a debian system and successfully build an RPM ? Thanks for your help. Dhanvi

Re: building rpms on debian system?

2006-04-19 Thread Ted Percival
Ek Zindagoi wrote: I would like to build rpms on a debian system for use on a redhat system. Can I do that on a debian system ? Even if I wanted to install the RPM on a debain system, can I run the rpmbuild -bb command on a debian system and successfully build an RPM You can certainly