On 09/27/2009 08:09 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:13:04 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> m.roth@xxxxxxxxx a écrit : >> >>> I'd add in the search RHEL<your release>, at least to start. Beyond that, >>> some other distro, such as mandrake, may have compatible rpms. >> >> No! Never use Mandrake RPMS on RHEL. > > Never say never: > > I have *successfully* used RPMS from both Mandrake and SUSE on a CentOS > 4.x system. Both RPMs are somewhat specialized developemental ones > though. > Sure, it is possible, if you get very lucky, to do so. However, even if packages install because a dependent library is available (take /lib/libc.so.6 for example) it does not mean that they are similar enough to work. RHEL/CentOS glibc has dozens of patches that are different than Mandriva or SUSE. They also put things in and look for things from different places than CentOS. So, one should think long and hard before (at the very least) before installing programs not built for/using CentOS/RHEL on CentOS.
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