RE: SuSe flavor.

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Porter [mailto:shiva@well.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 12:51 PM
> To: rpm-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: SuSe flavor.
> 
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:40:48 -0500, Liguo Song wrote:
> 
> >I just found out that there was another flavor of rpm 
> package other than
> >RedHat and Mandrake out there. It is SuSe. The rpm package 
> of this kind
> >only have the package in the file name, without the version 
> nubmers, eg
> >rpm.rpm.
> 
> AFAIK, RPM does not use the filename once the package is opened. The
> name, version and release numbers, etc. are embedded in the data. One
> could even feed RPM from a pipe, with no name whatsoever.

That's correct, the actual name of the package is embedded in the RPM
header.  <flame> SuSE is just trying to make it hard to figure out when
there is a newer package available </flame>

> There may be other issues involving build policies that apply, though.
> I've only used RH, so I don't know what changes when one uses another
> distribution.

I would recommend AGAINST using a SuSE binary RPM on RedHat, and vice versa.
The SRPM should be available from SuSE, you may be able to just rpm
--rebuild src.rpm on RedHat, or it may need a couple of tweaks to the spec
file.  Should be mostly painless...  Later,
	Greg