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Re: [SLE] Differences between rpm-based distros
- From: John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:23:18 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200609101123.08126.jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 09 September 2006 10:10, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote:
> Location of the installed app ie in usr or somewhere different to what
> SuSE expects. Location of the dependencies, evenif there aren't any. The
> RPM file built for Suse knows in what directories to find what it needs.
> Install another distro RPM that expects to find the dependencies in a
> different directory to the SuSE standard and you have a SNAFU ie
> dependant packages are in /home as opposed to the SuSE way of /lib.
So you are saying RPM looks for these dependency files on the disk in
specific places rather than looking at the rpm database to see if they were
installed?
I'm no RPM guru by any means, but that is not my understanding of
how it works. Build something from a tar ball sometime and see if
RPM believes the dependency is satisfied.
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John Andersen
> Location of the installed app ie in usr or somewhere different to what
> SuSE expects. Location of the dependencies, evenif there aren't any. The
> RPM file built for Suse knows in what directories to find what it needs.
> Install another distro RPM that expects to find the dependencies in a
> different directory to the SuSE standard and you have a SNAFU ie
> dependant packages are in /home as opposed to the SuSE way of /lib.
So you are saying RPM looks for these dependency files on the disk in
specific places rather than looking at the rpm database to see if they were
installed?
I'm no RPM guru by any means, but that is not my understanding of
how it works. Build something from a tar ball sometime and see if
RPM believes the dependency is satisfied.
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_____________________________________
John Andersen
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