Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3236 mails)

[nagash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (A Nourai)]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Bob wrote:
> Is it Ok to use rpms you find on the net, which are for red hat?
> Anytime? Sometimes? Never? Under what conditions? or is it better to
> get the source and compile it?
> 
>  -- 
> Bob Rea
> 
> 	Freedom is only privilege extended
> 		unless enjoyed by one and all
> 		--Billy Bragg
> 
> rear@xxxxxxxxxx   rrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx   http://www.sirius.com/~rear
> 
The directory structure of suse and redhat is quite similar, taking into
account links like /etc/rc.d ---. /sbin/init.d that suse has put in.
However, some rpm packages after installing the files, modify the
config scripts of the system.  Of course , suse's config scripts
differ from redhat's (suse uses one main file, rc.config).
So generally you can get problems if an rpm attempts to 
add an entry to a config file that isnt there.

You best of downlaoding the rpm and then querying it.
You can query it to see what config files it modifies, ..
also rpms for redhats might require certain redhat packages to
be installed first.
Like for example, redhat has a gtk+ package which is needed 
for many things.  Suse has the same package but calls it gtk
which can cause problems.

Its best IMHO to download src.rpm's and then modify the spec file as needed.
You might have to read up on this, theres lots of good resources
on the web.


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