On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 12:00:21 -0500 Jules <zope@jules.com> wrote:

Yes it does but until the Linux Standard Base (www.linuxbase.org) agrees on where everything should be, each distro *may* require a separate RPM. From what I've gathered on the list, Red Hat differs enough from SuSE that the RPM installation will fail -- can anybody confirm this> Does Red Hat use /etc/rc.config? I don't have RH around to try and test it.

If you want to try the RPM out and prove me wrong, I've love to eat a big bowl of crow ;-)

Unfortunately, you are correct, and the problem in fact is worse than that in that you also run into problems with control files being of different formats (from an automated tool's viewpoint), helper-tools not being present, packages supplying the same dependencies under different distributions will have different names leading to dependency mazes, etc. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw@kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder@kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--