Re: make rpm packages for all linux distributions

On 2006-02-28, Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In comp.os.linux.misc Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

How do you propose building an RPM for Debian, Slackware or other distros
that are not inherently RPM-based?

'man alien' perhaps?

The pedantic answer is that alien builds a Slackware .tgz package, not
an RPM. ;-)

The practical answer is that I've found that rpms converted by alien
to tgz don't work well (or at all), though I haven't tried this in some
time. But I still don't think it's a good idea--either provide source
code with a standard autoconf build process, or build a native package
for each of the distros you wish to support. If the latter is too much
work, then the former is obviously the best option.

--keith

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