Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

[Ivan Jager <aij+nospam@andrew.cmu.edu>]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Russ Allbery 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.

I don't build RPMs any more, but you should be able to build them just 
fine inside a chroot. Look at the schroot package if you want to do it as 
a normal user.

You will still want an install of each distro you want to build/test 
packages for, although some things built for one distro may work fine on 
another.

Ivan