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/. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
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