[linux-audio-user] MDK sound-RPMs troubles / Sound in Slackware?

[Austin]

On 2003.04.01 10:24 Rob wrote:
> I've noticed in recent versions that rpm resource naming has started to vary
> enough between RH and Mandrake that when you try to install a RH package
> sometimes it complains that some library isn't there because Mandrake's
> naming scheme mandates a "lib" in front of the name.  You could get around
> this by adding extra "Provides: " lines in the libs' spec files, though that
> will naturally cause problems with libraries that also come with executables,
> but I've never wanted to try to rebuild that many RPM's from the base
> distribution myself.

Oh of course.  Like I said, they are not MADE to be interchangeable.  That's 
not to say we're using some alien form of RPM though.  I just didn't want and 
false info flying around.

The reason we have different lib names is because we have a much stricter 
library policy than RedHat.  All libraries start with 'lib' and end with the 
so-number.  That way, you can install several so-versions of the same library 
on mandrake, which you can't do on RedHat.

(Sorry if this is getting off topic.)

Austin

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