On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:57:44AM +0200, Oron Peled wrote: > * IMO, it's important to have Debian packaging tools for Fedora so it > can be used as a more complete development platform: > - Currently, there's no problem building rpm's and yum repos on Debian > as a development platform, but not the other way around > > - This means that a Debian/Ubuntu workstation can build both .deb and RPM > packages, and we cannot use Fedora for a similar role. Is this really true? What happens if, say, your program depends on PCRE, which has different sonames on Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora (for essentially the same library): fedora$ rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.0 pcre-8.21-2.fc17.1.x86_64 ubuntu$ dpkg -S /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.12.1 libpcre3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.12.1 ubuntu$ dpkg -l libpcre3-dev Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii libpcre3-dev 8.12-3ubuntu2 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library I don't understand how a binary built on one platform could be copied across to the other and work. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
