It is my understanding that RPMs built for RHEL 4 are suppose to be compatible with Centos 4.1.
How about ones built for Fedora 3 or 4?
I thinking mainly about add-on programs that are not part of the core package.
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 13:40, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
It is my understanding that RPMs built for RHEL 4 are suppose to be compatible with Centos 4.1.
How about ones built for Fedora 3 or 4?
I thinking mainly about add-on programs that are not part of the core package.
There's a pretty good chance that they will work. You can make the chances even better by picking up the source rpm and building your own binaries with 'rpmbuild --rebuild ....' and installing the binaries that appear under /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/.
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 13:53 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 13:40, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
It is my understanding that RPMs built for RHEL 4 are suppose to be compatible with Centos 4.1.
How about ones built for Fedora 3 or 4?
I thinking mainly about add-on programs that are not part of the core package.
There's a pretty good chance that they will work. You can make the chances even better by picking up the source rpm and building your own binaries with 'rpmbuild --rebuild ....' and installing the binaries that appear under /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/.
Or better yet, in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/. :-)
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-August/009154.html
Phil
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:40 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
It is my understanding that RPMs built for RHEL 4 are suppose to be compatible with Centos 4.1.
Yes. Have had no problems with 3rd party EL4 RPMs that would seem to have anything to do with CentOS4 vs. RHEL4 differences.
How about ones built for Fedora 3 or 4?
FC3 - pretty good bet, but I still prefer to rebuild from SRPMs. FC4 - very iffy at best. Even rebuilding can be problematic with the significant differences with gcc4 and libs.
Phil
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