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Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]>
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Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 9 Dec 2014 01:36:46 -0500
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On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Although I should have been able to find this information from a different
> source, via Wikipedia:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux
>
> I found:
>
> Fedora 19 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
>
>
> Is it correct that (most) binary x86-64 RPMs for TUV Fedora 19 will install
> on SL 7 ?

Except when they don't. It's hit or miss, especially for complex
dependency chains such as Perl modules that depend on othermodules
that are *also* not present in RHEL 7. That can put you in serious
dependency hell in edge cases.

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