On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:02:58PM -0500, David Talkington wrote:
> >Now that RHL 7.1 is on the streets (ncftp is downloading the iso
> >files right now...) will I be able to use binary RPM packages built
> >for 7.0 on it? I know I cannot use RHL 6.0 packages on 7.0, but 7.1
> >had many changes again, it was not a simply point release, so...
>
> Binary compatibility is assured within any major version number.
I beg to differ. I had some RPMs built on a 7.0 system (mutt and courier),
and when I tried to install those on a 7.1 system, they would not install
because they needed some library files under /usr/lib. The files were
of course there, just with different suffixes. So I simply rebuilt the
RPMs on 7.1 and they work fine. I don't know whether this is a bug or
whether I've missed an obvious step somewhere,
--
Anand
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