> > Alex Yukhimets: > > I myself got some strange numbers instead of some real users (like root) > > and groups (like bin). It happend with both rpm and tar archives. > > After I upgraded tar from 1.11.8-11 to 1.12-1 I managed to get reasonable > > ownerships (bin/bin) but only with tar archive. rpm still gives strange > > numbers. > > > > I used alien_3.3 to convert rpm to .deb, but since ownerships were still > > bad, > > What't the problem with the ownerships? Is it just that the deb and tar file > have users in them that arn't present in debian? If you use alien, it should > clean that up so everything is owned by root.root.
Unfortunately it doesn't. After installing package convrted with alien *.rpm (for version 5) or alien -i -n *.rpm (for 3.3) files still have bad ownerships. Alex Y. > > > I just made a simple slackware .tgz package, it is not hard at all, > > you just have to modify motif.install file to look like slackware's > > doinst.sh and repack everything in a single motif-2.0.1.tgz file. > > After that I again used alien_3.3 to convert that to .deb. > > > > !!!! Suprisingly, alien_5 didn't work for this purpors. It does not > > convert .tgz packages properly. (after installation I still have /install > > directory). - Does anyone have any idea why? > > Probably because my slackware .tgz support is broken (I maintain alien). > I'll grab a couple of .tgz packages and see if I can get this fixed. > > -- > See shy Jo. > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
