Problem creating RPM Binary Packages that work..

[John Puffs]

Thanks Brandon.

That is what I was hoping was not the case.

Are the Macports not just packaged from source files for easy OS X install?
I thought it would work somehow..

Bummer. It would be great.

Thanks,
JP

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <allbery at kf8nh.com
> wrote:

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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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