Kris Van Hees wrote:
Actually, more than small and subtle... Dependencies for the binary RPMs are in part derived from the build environment, so creating a SuSE RPM on a RedHat system, or the other way around, is never a good idea. It can be made to work with the right amount of dark magic, but it isn't for the faint of heart, and it is bound to get you into a lot of misery down the road.Cheers, Kris
Kris, The application itself is quite portable and after some work complies 100% with LSB 3.0. (http://www.freestandards.org/en/LSB) Of course we would be testing on as many architectures and distros as possible, but we've had success in building LSB3.0 compatible RPMs (for arch=i486, arch=x86_64, arch=ppc, and arch=ppc64) that install and run correctly on several LSB3.0 distros (including Debian/Ubuntu via alien). We are hoping that LSB 3.0 compatible RPMs for arch=s390 and arch=s390x will work as well. If this is "never a good idea", can you elaborate on issues that you see? Following is a snippet from the RPM spec that is used for LSB packaging that I believe is designed to address the issues that you mention. The point of LSB is to have - by architecture - binary application compatibility across LSB compatible distros. As you can see below, a "lsb compatible" distro is required to have "lsb" support packages that wash away distro-specific dependencies. Buildroot: /var/tmp/%{name} Prefix: /opt/dovetail/xxx AutoReqProv: no # LSB dependency section %ifarch i386 i486 i586 i686 athlon PreReq: lsb-core-ia32 >= 3.0 %endif %ifarch ia64 PreReq: lsb-core-ia64 >= 3.0 %endif %ifarch ppc PreReq: lsb-core-ppc32 >= 3.0 %endif %ifarch ppc64 PreReq: lsb-core-ppc64 >= 3.0 %endif %ifarch s390 PreReq: lsb-core-s390 >= 3.0 %endif %ifarch s390x PreReq: lsb-core-s390x >= 3.0 %endif %ifarch x86_64 PreReq: lsb-core-amd64 >= 3.0 %endif ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
