Re: Debian and Redhat

["Craig H. Block" <pdxsj@pacbell.net>]

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However, there are some software that these servers MUST have, right now
it's
Legato Networker and the UPS software (not sure which UPS system we will use
yet). Both have support for Linux, but only RedHat. I'v made debian packages
of Networker from the RPM package, and they works fine. I'll try to do the
same with the UPS sw as soon as we recieve it.
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If you are using APC UPS then you should check their website.  I sent them
an email a couple months ago about PowerChute for Linux and they said it
should be available this quarter.

You can use a script called rpm2cpio to extract the compressed tarballs from
the rpm's if your conversion tool gives you problems.  You can get it here:

http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxNoRPMS.html

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Can I be sure that binaries compiled against RedHat5.x always runs under
Debian 2.1? My "common sence" says yes, since they are both based on
glibc2.0
and the same free software, but... I dont mind some tweaking, but I dont
want
to spend weeks to get it to work.
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I would say certainly yes as long as the system supports the applications's
depencies on C lib and possibly X libs if it runs on X.