"Marcelo Chiapparini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 00:43:16 -0500, Valius wrote: >>or use alien (I believe it should be in your RedHat distribution) and >>``alienize'' .debs to .rpms > >I would like to know if alien can be user to obtain a .deb from a .rpm.
Yes; in fact, that's the default. See 'man alien'. >If this is the case, what happens with the directories were, after >installation, files are installed? They're the same, apart (possibly) from anything done in the package maintainer scripts, such as the /usr/doc/foo -> /usr/share/doc/foo symlink. >I mean RH may use some directories and Debian anothers. Correct. If you're using alien, you have to live with that. You can use 'alien -g' to move the directories around before creating the new package if need be. Again, this is discussed in the alien man page. >How compares an "alienized" (.rpm --> .deb) version of a program with >an original .deb version? After install both of them work equally fine? I only use aliened packages if I can't avoid it. For anything complex (especially any packages that need to co-operate), it's better to build a .deb from scratch. I find it most useful as a quick way of unpacking an .rpm where I don't have an equivalent source tarball (of course, if I can manage it I try to avoid sourceless binaries, too), and at that point I might as well build the .deb with alien as well. >Both versions can be updated using apt-get? Only if you put them in an aptable repository. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
