On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 04:30:43PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 05:06:56PM +0000, Peter Makholm wrote: > > "Christian Convey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Is this something people normally do from the same Debian workstation, > > > or do they typically fire up a RedHat system to do their .rpm > > > creation, and use a Debian workstation to do their .deb creation? > > > > Never done it myself but I would at least built the rpm in a chroot or > > vserver with the target distribution installed. > > It looks like rpmstrap could build you a suitable chroot (like > debootstap for Debian), but from the description it appears to be > somewhat outdated (eg Fedora Core 2). > Also, based on my experience trying to build a CentOS 3 chroot (CentOS 3 being fairly old at this point), it just doesn't work.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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