installing fedora packages on RHEL -- how bad the craziness?

2009-12-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
actually, this is technically about installing fedora packages on centos 5.4 but, obviously, the same issues apply. and i asked about this on the centos list but i'd like the fedora perspective as well. the short version -- someone running centos 5.4 needs a fairly new version of

Re: installing fedora packages on RHEL -- how bad the craziness?

2009-12-04 Thread Ed Greshko
Robert P. J. Day wrote: actually, this is technically about installing fedora packages on centos 5.4 but, obviously, the same issues apply. and i asked about this on the centos list but i'd like the fedora perspective as well. the short version -- someone running centos 5.4 needs a

Re: installing fedora packages on RHEL -- how bad the craziness?

2009-12-04 Thread Martin Airs
Could you not install from sources get poppler.?.?.?.src.rpm then rpmbuild --rebuild poppler.?.?.?.src.rpm that should build you a centos rpm Martin On 12/04/2009 11:26 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: actually, this is technically about installing fedora packages on centos 5.4 but,

Re: installing fedora packages on RHEL -- how bad the craziness?

2009-12-04 Thread Ryan Lynch
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 08:31, Martin Airs camberw...@gmail.com wrote: Could you not install from sources get poppler.?.?.?.src.rpm then rpmbuild --rebuild poppler.?.?.?.src.rpm that should build you a centos rpm At work, some of my colleagues prefer to compile and install from source into