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
