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Re:Show HN: Fast native RPM building from any distro, for an... by rwmj on Friday February 06, 2015 @01:19PM (#9010564)
This is a problem (if you consider it a problem) of all Linux distros. It's just that people look at the foo.rpm file and think it should be installable anywhere, but no one would look at a foo.deb file and think they could install it on Arch.
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Re:Show HN: Fast native RPM building from any distro, for an... by peterwwillis on Friday February 06, 2015 @01:33PM (#9010641)
If Debian packages only required a single text file to build everything, they could! It would be simple for the distros to combine their efforts on a single .spec file. Back in the day I used to make RPM .specs that would build the package successfully on Solaris, Linux, Windows, etc and then had tools to convert the RPM into a native package format for easier maintenance. Writing an rpm2dstream script took just a couple hours.
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