[ale] RPMS

[Tommie M. Jones]

I think you're safe to use different RPMs with different distributions.
There have been problems with using newer rpms with older versions of the
rpm binary.  (rpm files were not backward compatible and try doing a
search online for the rpm binary in gz or old rpm format)
But RH 7.2 uses the more recent RPM binary.

Go ahead and try it.  You can always do an rpm -ev.


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On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 lisk at mindspring.com wrote:

>
> 	Can anyone help me with this simple question?  I want to know if you can
> use RPMS from one distribution with another.  For example.  I have SuSE 7.0
> professional that someone gave me and there are a couple of packages  I
> would like to use on my computer running Red Hat 7.2.  So far I've not been
> able to find the answer to this specific question, so any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> 	My suspicion is that files would get installed in strange  places if the
> packages aren't used with the distro for which it was intended, but I"m not
> sure.
>
> 	Thanks in advance
> 	John Lisk
> 	(lisk at mindspring.com)
>
>
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