On Fri, Jul 10, 2009, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2009, at 3:26 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>
>> Short question: if I have a ix86-centos5.0 platform where I build
>> an RPM binary package (with RPM 5.1) and want to deploy it onto a
>> ix86-centos5.2 platform (also with same RPM 5.1), I have to use
>> --ignoreos. With RPM 4 we could have used the old "rpmrc" mechanism to
>> configure a compatibility mapping as far as I can remember. What is
>> the
>> _configuration_ solution for RPM 5?
>
> The analogue to rpmrc (with arch and os comapt tables) is *RE's in
> /etc/rpm/platform with CPU-VENDOR-OS-GNU compatibility.
Ah, right: I totally forgot that the platform file is able to contain
regular expressions. Thanks for the hint, Jeff.
Ralf S. Engelschall
r...@engelschall.com
www.engelschall.com
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