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Subject: Re: Portable RPMs
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Date: 17 Aug 2002 14:43:45 +0300

On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 20:58, Torsten Bronger wrote:

> If I create an RPM according to one of the how-to's with having
> Red Hat in mind, how big are my chances that it will also work
> for the SuSE distribution, or others?  (I don't know how many
> base on the RPM system.)
> 
> Or what must I pay attention to when creating an RPM that should
> work with the big distributions?

One practice I've adopted is to list Requires: only when they're
absolutely necessary.  This will help because some packages are named
differently between distributions (eg. SDL <-> libSDL), and the
dependencies are automatically handled by RPM by depending on shared
library names.

This doesn't apply to BuildRequires: though.

Use macros for directory names where available, eg %{_libdir},
%{_bindir}, %{_datadir} etc.

I'd like to suggest using as many RPM macros for command names as
possible too, but unfortunately I don't know of a definitive reference
about them...

I have a small RedHat 7.3 RPM/apt repository at
<http://cachalot.ods.org/>, and I've received reports from people
running Mandrake 8.x and SuSE that the RPMs work with them out of the
box.

-- 
\/ille Skyttä
ville.skytta at iki.fi


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