A lot of whining, little substance
A lot of whining, little substance
Posted May 22, 2005 22:00 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)In reply to: A lot of whining, little substance by b7j0c
Parent article: What the Linux Desktop Needs (OS Views)
> This is false. Creating an RPM is a reusable process, but the resulting file is not portable between RPM supporting distros. Rarely are they portable even between versions of the same distro.
I was talking about creating a SPEC file (which is a text file - a script of sorts). One gets binary (and source) RPMS as a result of running a build process against that script. Most spec files (and this is where the work goes) ARE portable between different distros and different versions of the distro.
Don't confuse the RPM with its spec file.
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