Avoiding the issue of, if looking up the distro name is a good/bad idea... It is pretty non-trivial to determine stuff such as processor/distro/version because every distro/proc seems to report it slightly differently. Check out the source for yum or up2date for how to do it in python. Look at the definitive bash script in autoconfig/config/config.guess for a deeper example. David T. Farning -dtf On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 21:12 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Erik Slagter wrote: > > > On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 21:00, Dag Wieers wrote: > > > > > How are you going to build cross-vendor packages when every vendor is > > > having their own specific naming convention and libraries ? What 3rd > > > parties are doing is removing all the dependencies from thei packages so > > > that they will install. Making dependencies completely futile and having > > > no guarantee they will work. > > > > Although using sonames as dependencies does help. > > Guess what, libraries differ on different distributions. And even when > they are named the same, they may not be ABI compatible. > > > > BTW I regularly install rpms from PLD and Mandrake on my FC system, no > > problem. Sometimes I need to persuade them a little bit yeah. > > Good luck to you. > > -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- > [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list -- David T Farning <dfarning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
