From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <394DE426.C03781F3@student.ethz.ch> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:13:10 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hollis Blanchard CC: arcane@verinet.com, yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Need for Cross Platform Updates Distribution References: <394DD78F.AD49931@amulet.co.jp> <394DDB66.62A97110@student.ethz.ch> <394DE1CA.509F24DC@amulet.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 Of course you usually *can* get a foreign rpm to install, I know, I've updated a few hopelessly outdated packages on the SuSE 6.4 at work using RedHat RPMs.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 > > > 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 -- Why drink & drive when you can smoke and fly??? ______________________________________________________________________________ Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86, Team *AMIGA*, AUGS ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/