[Mageia-discuss] rpm compatibility

[Sandro Cazzaniga]

Le Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:44:30 +0200,
Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com> a écrit :

> Alien is a tool for converting RPMs to DEBs and vice versa. This may
> or may not work since you are using dynamically linked packages. So
> using packages build for another distro may work if they link against
> the sam lib versions and may not if they link against different lib
> versions.
> 
> OBS is something different. OBS uses virtual machines of the distro
> it builds packages for and so builds more or less "normal" packages
> for the distro.
Thanks for these explanations :)

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