[Yum] dependency failure w/ yum (and pirut), ok with rpm -i

[Garrick Staples]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 03:08:36PM -0500, Maurizio Vitale alleged:
> Now that stale copy mentioned above was created on OpenSUSE and
> installing fine there. Is there this much sensitivity on the machine
> where the RPM is created? I certainly hope to be able to create RPMs
> that can be installed using the native package manager on many/all RPM
> based distributions. Is that a naive expectation on my part and should I
> just focus on CentOS/RHEL, or is just a matter of me needing to learn
> more about RPM packaging?
> 
> Any link to doc on multi-distribution RPM packaging?

It only works for very trivial packages.  Anything non-trivial can't get
filepaths and requires correct on more than 1 distro at a time.


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Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin
University of Southern California

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