Problem creating RPM Binary Packages that work..

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allbery at kf8nh.com
Tue Aug 24 00:03:21 PDT 2010


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On 8/24/10 02:57 , John Puffs wrote:
> From the documentation it seems that the purpose of creating a Binary
> Package is to install on another system, not having Macports.

Yes.  Another *Mac* without MacPorts installed.  Darwin / OSX Mach-O
executables won't run on Linux, and Linux ELF executables won't run on
Darwin or OSX, regardless of whether MacPorts is involved or not.  This is
what the RPM dependency means.

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