On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Laughlin, Joseph V wrote: > If I'm building an rpm on a RH 9.0 machine, I've found that I can take > the source rpm, transfer it to a RH 8.0 machine, run 'rpmbuild --rebuild > <src.rpm>' and have it result in an RPM that can be installed on 8.0 > machines. > > Is there anything wrong with doing this? Is this the standard way to > make RPMs for different platforms? > Its an excellent way of doing this. The caveat is that just because it built does not mean there are no bugs on this platform. So you should at least do some sanity testing with the rebuilt rpm. If the source has any test scripts, definately avail yourself of them. ...james > Joe Laughlin, Phantom Works - ITDL > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
