[Gllug] openoffice 1.1 RPMs?

[Paul Nasrat]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:12:34AM +0100, Tethys wrote:

> The only way ot get a clean RPM install is to use an RPM from Red Hat.
> Otherwise you're going to end up conflicting with the RH openoffice
> package and general nastiness will occur.

Depends on how you package, there are ways of doing this harmoniously.

> Indeed, this is probably the biggest complaint I have with common RPM
> based distributions. There should be separate RPM databases for system
> packages, and third party packages to avoid conflicts.

You can do this easily rpm --root (apparently remote db via sun-rpc
works, beep coming...)

Fedora should help this lots:

http://fedora.redhat.com/
http://fedora.us/ (old project)

The Fedora packaging guidelines were carefully designed to allow clean
nevr updates by using vepoch.

Paul

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