Ek Zindagoi wrote: > I would like to build rpms on a debian system for use on a redhat > system. Can I do that on a debian system ? > > Even if I wanted to install the RPM on a debain system, can I run the > rpmbuild -bb command on a debian system and successfully build an RPM You can certainly build them - I have done so in the past. I'm not sure how well the shared-library dependencies are handled though, you might find that your desired RPM-based distribution ships with shared libraries of different versions that you'd prefer to depend on. That shouldn't be a problem if you expect all your users to have up-to-date systems, though. It might also not be a problem at all - I have only done a very small amount of RPM packaging on my Debian system. You should definitely not install the resulting binary RPM on Debian, of course (at the very least convert it to .deb with alien). The rpm and rpmbuild binaries are part of the 'rpm' package. -Ted
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