On Thursday 23 June 2005 19:54, James Yonan wrote: > I was thinking more about someone who builds a binary RPM on a machine > that has a correctly linked pam-modules set causing autoconf to sense this > -- now that RPM can't be used on a machine with an earlier broken version > of pam-modules.
That's why RPMs are built on a per-distro basis. You usually can't assume that an RPM compiled on FC3 will work on FC4. I tried to explain that point to my boss at my previous job but we ended up cross-compiling on Gentoo for Suse 9.2 and FC2 anyway. I bet they've run into a lot of trouble and now have dedicated build machines running the target distros. Anyway, your initial concern is not a problem because RPMs are not supposed to be compatible across distro versions.
