RE: Rpm-list Digest, Vol 39, Issue 1

["Wyse, Chris" <chris wyse windriver com>]

Hi Russel,    

Thanks for the response (and everyone else who responded).  Binary RPMS
are a problem for me since I'm distributing a driver.  I would have to
support tons of configurations, for each kernel/distribution pair.  I
think binary RPMS probably make sense for applications that aren't
tightly coupled with the kernel version.  I assume for drivers that a
tarball and an SRPM is the way to go.

By the way - I haven't used alien, but I assumed that it would work on
SRPMS.  If that's not true, then the tarball is really the only
distribution method for drivers?  


Chris Wyse
Member of Technical Staff
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