Though, will dpkg and the like be purposely crippled on Fedora like rpm is on Debian systems? It probably would be a good idea to patch dpkg and stuff to make sure they don't work as standard packagers, but rather just helpers to alien, as RPM does on a Debian system. We want to avoid the possibility of package jumbling..... On Dec 5, 2007 12:58 PM, Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Dec 5, 2007 11:19 AM, Zdenek Prikryl <zprikryl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > Debian has the inverse, namely, it has all the packages to create RPMs. > > +1 if the ability to turn RPMs into DEBs show up. It could make > getting multi-distro support for Smolt easier. > > -Yaakov > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
