On 12/05/2007 05:19 PM, Zdenek Prikryl wrote: >> I think it was removed a long time ago before Fedora (I think maybe >> back in the Red Hat 8 or 9 days, perhaps?), > > Hmm after little investigation I found, that convert deb, tgz, slp to rpm isn't > problem. But reverse conversion is big problem. For example, if I want to > convert rmp do deb, I have to have installed dpkg[-dev] and debhelper, which are > debian packages for creating deb files. All of those packages aren't in fedora > repos. > > So, question is, if one-way conversion is a sufficient reason to create alien > package. Other solution is create another package (like deb in OpenSUSE) which > contains those debian packages and make alien dependant on this new package. Or > let alien be forgotten henceforth. I think you start with one-way version (if you like) and try to get the missing links into Fedora as well and then switch your alien pkg to rebuild and/or use the missing bits... Else, get the deb bits into Fedora and afterwards alien itself... Which sounds for me like the best idea.... -of -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
