David B.Teague dixit: > > On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Stefan Langerman wrote: > > I have thought about using alien to create a .deb and then used dpkg to > install it. IF the tarball puts things in the right places, it seems to me > that this should work find. It has the added advantage of my being able to > un-install. > > I'd like some feed back about this, as I suspect there is some danger > involved, since there does not appear to be much in the way of controls.
A tarball may only be debianized with alien if it is as Slackware package (usually .tgz). But .tgz and .tar.gz may also be source, not binaries, so nothing to do with alien here. Regards Horacio -- Claves - GnuPG/PGP - Keys : http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver o/or Envía un mensaje vacío a [EMAIL PROTECTED] con la línea de asunto: Send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject line: Tipo de Clave/Key Type Asunto:/Subject: DSA/ElGamal fetch dsa/elgamal DSS/Diffie-Hellman fetch dh/dss RSA fetch rsa
