Re: Need for Cross Platform Updates Distribution

Hollis Blanchard wrote:

Of course you usually *can* get a foreign rpm to install,

I know, I've updated a few hopelessly outdated packages on the SuSE 6.4 at
work using RedHat RPMs.

it's just that it's not unusual for it not to work with your system (or may
break other things in your system). Since neither company is testing their
software packages for compatibility with the other, this is not unexpected.

Thanks, I think I understand the problem.

linuxbase.org needs to be a little better about organizing their website it
seems...

Sorry, forgot to mention www.freestandards.org

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I should also note that Debian packages also don't work well with other
distributions.

But at least there aren't incompatible flavours of debs - you find a deb
somewhere, you install it, it works.

Debian is of course a single organization (and honestly I don't know
anything about Corel or Storm or any compatibility issues there - isn't
Corel using an old glibc?).

The .deb dependancy system won't let you install a package which wouldn't work
unless you really really want to.

If only RedHat used RPM, you can bet any rpm you could find would work.

True. A good point for .deb IMHO ;)


Michel


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