On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 15:08 -0500, Maurizio Vitale wrote: > David Timms <dtimms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > There seems to be both 32 and 64 bit packages that are > > mentioned. Perhaps there is an older version of the 32 bit that is > > tripping yum up ? > > Mhhh, this shouldn't be the case. Which prompted me to crosscheck the > rpms and indeed what I was downloading in one VM was not what I was > uploading from the other. Of course a stale copy was present where the > installer was looking for it. > > Once that's been fixed everything is fine: I can install on a very clean > CentOS an RPM package that has been created on a much less clean > development CentOS. > > 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? > Generally the doc is: Don't do it, you will end up hating your world. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
