[NTLUG:Discuss] Mandrake questions

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Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com wrote:
> 
> RPM is quite sophisticated enough to handle these issues.  For example, they
> ought to at least be built relocatable.  If they install to an unusual library
> (outside /lib and /usr/lib) they could, with a post-install script, check that
> that library path is in /etc/ld.so.conf.   They should not be making assumptions
> about the location and format of system configuration files, like
> /etc/rc.d/init.d in RH.
> 
> If you use an RPM built for a different distribution, you are guaranteed
> nothing.  I don't consider this a failure or inadequecy of the distributions,
> but rather that newbies have to stick within their distribution.  You will have
> to check what it will install (rpm -qivlp *.rpm) and what scripts it will run to
> do the install (rpm -qp *.rpm --scripts).  The usual problem I have is that the
> binary rpm depends on different library versions, so I download the src.rpm and
> rebuild it.

Exactly,
And SuSE has been very difficult to find rpms for,
leaving my friend to grab tarballs and attempt compilations,
which are troubled by the fact that INSTALL & README files discuss
files and directions that do not mesh with the SuSEfs.


eyes & ears
./aal