Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

["Hector Oron" <hecormar@gmail.com>]

Maybe using 'alien'?

2007/7/6, Christian Convey <christian.convey@gmail.com>:

\On 7/6/07, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Christian Convey <christian.convey@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > My development workstation is running Debian, and I'd like to produce
> > both .deb and .rpm releases of my software.
>
> > Is this something people normally do from the same Debian workstation,
> > or do they typically fire up a RedHat system to do their .rpm creation,
> > and use a Debian workstation to do their .deb creation?
>
> You'll have to use the appropriate OS to build packages for that OS.
> Debian requires this as well in order to get things like shared library
> dependencies right, to satisfy Build-Depends, and so forth.  It makes
> sense that RPM has the same issues.
>
> --
> Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               < http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
>

Thanks everyone.


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